Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Justice is a major government department, at the heart of the justice system. We work to protect and advance the principles of justice. Our vision is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society.
Shadow Ministers / Spokeperson
Plaid Cymru
Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd)Shadow PC Spokesperson (Justice)
Liberal Democrat
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer)Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Justice)
Labour
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer)Shadow Spokesperson (Justice)
Liberal Democrat
Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland)Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice)
Scottish National Party
David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East)Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Social Justice)
Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West)
Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Justice)
Labour
Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham, Ladywood)Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
Junior Shadow Ministers / Deputy Spokesperson
Labour
Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North)Shadow Minister (Justice)
Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East)
Shadow Minister (Youth Justice)
Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth)
Shadow Minister (Justice)
Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State
Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer)Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Mike Freer (Con - Finchley and Golders Green)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Legislation - Main Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill – report stage (day 3)
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Orders and regulations - Grand Committee
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Domestic Abuse) (Amendment) Order 2024
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Legislation - Main Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill - report stage (day 4)
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14 May 2024, 11:30 a.m.
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Ministry of Justice Commons Appearances
Oral Answers to Questions is a regularly scheduled appearance where the Secretary of State and junior minister will answer at the Dispatch Box questions from backbench MPs
Other Commons Chamber appearances can be:- Urgent Questions where the Speaker has selected a question to which a Minister must reply that day
- Adjornment Debates a 30 minute debate attended by a Minister that concludes the day in Parliament.
- Oral Statements informing the Commons of a significant development, where backbench MP's can then question the Minister making the statement.
Westminster Hall debates are performed in response to backbench MPs or e-petitions asking for a Minister to address a detailed issue
Written Statements are made when a current event is not sufficiently significant to require an Oral Statement, but the House is required to be informed.
Bills currently before Parliament
A Bill to make provision about victims of criminal conduct and others affected by criminal conduct; about the appointment and functions of advocates for victims of major incidents; about the release of prisoners; about the membership and functions of the Parole Board; to prohibit certain prisoners from forming a marriage or civil partnership; and for connected purposes.
Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Tuesday 30th April 2024
To amend the Arbitration Act 1996.
A Bill to make provision about the sentencing of offenders convicted of murder or sexual offences; to make provision about the suspension of custodial sentences; to make provision about the release of offenders, including provision about release on licence; and for connected purposes.
Wednesday 6th December 2023
Acts of Parliament created in the 2019 Parliament
A Bill to make provision about the police and other emergency workers; to make provision about collaboration between authorities to prevent and reduce serious violence; to make provision about offensive weapons homicide reviews; to make provision for new offences and for the modification of existing offences; to make provision about the powers of the police and other authorities for the purposes of preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting crime or investigating other matters; to make provision about the maintenance of public order; to make provision about the removal, storage and disposal of vehicles; to make provision in connection with driving offences; to make provision about cautions; to make provision about bail and remand; to make provision about sentencing, detention, release, management and rehabilitation of offenders; to make provision about secure 16 to 19 Academies; to make provision for and in connection with procedures before courts and tribunals; and for connected purposes.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th April 2022 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to Make provision about the provision that may be made by, and the effects of, quashing orders; to make provision restricting judicial review of certain decisions of the Upper Tribunal; to make provision about the use of written and electronic procedures in courts and tribunals; to make other provision about procedure in, and the organisation of, courts and tribunals; and for connected purposes.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th April 2022 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to make provision about the sentencing of offenders convicted of terrorism offences, of offences with a terrorist connection or of certain other offences; to make other provision in relation to terrorism; and for connected purposes.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 29th April 2021 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to implement the Hague Conventions of 1996, 2005 and 2007 and to provide for the implementation of other international agreements on private international law.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 14th December 2020 and was enacted into law.
To require the Parole Board to take into account any failure by a prisoner serving a sentence for unlawful killing or for taking or making an indecent image of a child to disclose information about the victim.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 4th November 2020 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to consolidate certain enactments relating to sentencing.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 22nd October 2020 and was enacted into law.
A bill to make in relation to marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales provision about divorce, dissolution and separation; and for connected purposes
This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th June 2020 and was enacted into law.
A bill to give effect to Law Commission recommendations relating to commencement of enactments relating to sentencing law and to make provision for pre-consolidation amendments of sentencing law
This Bill received Royal Assent on 8th June 2020 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to make provision about the release on licence of offenders convicted of terrorist offences or offences with a terrorist connection; and for connected purposes.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th February 2020 and was enacted into law.
Ministry of Justice - Secondary Legislation
Petitions
e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.
If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
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Petition Closed
closed 1 year, 8 months ago
The proposed Human Rights Act reforms must be withdrawn. The Government must not make any changes to the Human Rights Act, especially ones that dilute people's human rights in any circumstances, make the Government less accountable, or reduce people's ability to make human rights claims.
Petition Closed
closed 1 year, 3 months ago
As Parliament considers the Bill of Rights, the Government must reconsider including abortion rights in this Bill. Rights to abortion must be specifically protected in this legislation, especially as the Government has refused to rule out leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
Petition Closed
Ryan's Law: Widen definition of 'death by dangerous driving'
Gov Responded - 24 Mar 2021 Debated on - 15 Nov 2021closed 2 years, 7 months ago
The offence of causing 'death by dangerous driving' should be widened to include: failure to stop, call 999 and render aid on scene until further help arrives.
Departmental Select Committee
Justice Committee
Commons Select Committees are a formally established cross-party group of backbench MPs tasked with holding a Government department to account.
At any time there will be number of ongoing investigations into the work of the Department, or issues which fall within the oversight of the Department. Witnesses can be summoned from within the Government and outside to assist in these inquiries.
Select Committee findings are reported to the Commons, printed, and published on the Parliament website. The government then usually has 60 days to reply to the committee's recommendations.
10 Members of the Justice Committee
Justice Committee Chair since 29th January 2020
Justice Committee Member since 2nd March 2020
Justice Committee Member since 2nd March 2020
Justice Committee Member since 2nd November 2021
Justice Committee Member since 17th May 2022
Justice Committee Member since 27th June 2022
Justice Committee Member since 29th November 2022
Justice Committee Member since 28th March 2023
Justice Committee Member since 12th September 2023
Justice Committee Member since 5th December 2023
Justice Committee: 9 Current Inquiries
Justice Committee: Previous Inquiries
50 most recent Written Questions
(View all written questions)Section 156 (2) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 introduced a new statutory aggravating factor for certain assault offences where they are committed against a person providing a public service, performing a public duty, or providing services to the public. The Government introduced this to ensure that the public-facing nature of a victim's role would be considered, allowing the court to give a longer sentence within the statutory maximum for the offence.
The Ministry of Justice does not collect or publish data on the use of aggravating factors. Currently, there is no specific offence for an attack against a worker undertaking a public-facing role. As assault of a worker in a public-facing role is not a specific offence, we are unable to assess the trends relating to assaults on public-facing workers specifically.
The Government recognises the seriousness of assaults on workers undertaking public-facing roles and is clear that we must adopt a zero-tolerance approach to assault against those who serve the public. This is why in April 2024, the Government published ‘Fighting Retail Crime: more action’, within which the Government announced plans to introduce a new offence of assault against a shop worker, building on the operational policing commitments in the police-led Retail Crime Action Plan published in October 2023.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The decision to remand an individual in custody or to grant bail is solely a matter for the independent judiciary acting in accordance with the law. The Ministry of Justice therefore cannot intervene in any decision made by the court and cannot assess whether remands to custody or bail are more appropriate in these cases.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not held centrally.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The tables below set out the number of Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit appeals awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, and (d) by hearing venue as at end of December 2023 (the latest period for which data are available). There are no separate data collated at (c) tribunal office level.
Information about the average length of time between appeals being lodged and heard; and in how many case the length of time waited has exceeded this average is not held centrally.
Personal Independence Payment1 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 6804 | 3861 | 980 |
Bexleyheath | 1 | 1 | 0 |
East London | 1543 | 905 | 234 |
Enfield | 27 | 11 | 3 |
Fox Court | 3318 | 1846 | 483 |
Hatton Cross | 243 | 98 | 72 |
Romford | 512 | 353 | 67 |
Sutton | 1160 | 647 | 121 |
Midlands | 9330 | 5052 | 1369 |
Birmingham | 1984 | 1007 | 354 |
Boston | 202 | 134 | 25 |
Chesterfield | 457 | 255 | 57 |
Coventry | 698 | 442 | 71 |
Derby | 701 | 417 | 91 |
Hereford | 101 | 43 | 20 |
Kidderminster | 144 | 60 | 30 |
Leicester | 813 | 415 | 108 |
Lincoln | 427 | 258 | 46 |
Northampton | 488 | 328 | 56 |
Nottingham | 1135 | 610 | 168 |
Nuneaton | 99 | 58 | 13 |
Shrewsbury | 333 | 185 | 46 |
Stoke | 427 | 228 | 63 |
Walsall | 316 | 136 | 66 |
Wellingborough | 196 | 114 | 22 |
Wolverhampton | 637 | 262 | 110 |
Worcester | 172 | 100 | 23 |
North East | 7061 | 3468 | 1316 |
Barnsley | 193 | 71 | 38 |
Bedlington | 159 | 66 | 44 |
Berwick | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Bradford | 691 | 334 | 131 |
Darlington | 356 | 195 | 49 |
Doncaster | 316 | 142 | 51 |
Durham | 333 | 169 | 77 |
Gateshead | 78 | 33 | 21 |
Grimsby | 186 | 80 | 37 |
Huddersfield | 32 | 10 | 8 |
Hull | 342 | 181 | 65 |
Leeds | 514 | 165 | 132 |
Newcastle | 332 | 122 | 80 |
North Shields | 134 | 34 | 46 |
Scarborough | 158 | 75 | 29 |
Sheffield | 737 | 381 | 119 |
South Shields | 233 | 112 | 53 |
Sunderland | 545 | 349 | 53 |
Teesside | 871 | 581 | 85 |
Wakefield | 687 | 322 | 138 |
York | 150 | 40 | 57 |
North West | 7362 | 4250 | 1066 |
Barrow | 84 | 53 | 10 |
Birkenhead | 355 | 223 | 43 |
Blackburn | 311 | 180 | 58 |
Blackpool | 355 | 189 | 69 |
Bolton | 414 | 231 | 69 |
Burnley | 263 | 151 | 31 |
Carlisle | 165 | 86 | 32 |
Chester | 500 | 315 | 65 |
Lancaster | 105 | 66 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1023 | 495 | 155 |
Manchester | 1319 | 821 | 164 |
Preston | 248 | 123 | 58 |
Rochdale | 436 | 216 | 90 |
St Helens | 512 | 301 | 73 |
Stockport | 699 | 451 | 68 |
Wigan | 427 | 267 | 49 |
Workington | 146 | 82 | 31 |
Scotland | 263 | 68 | 114 |
Aberdeen | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ayr | 11 | 1 | 4 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Dundee | 6 | 0 | 2 |
Dunfermline | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Edinburgh | 70 | 19 | 36 |
Galashiels | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Glasgow | 89 | 24 | 36 |
Greenock | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Hamilton | 24 | 3 | 6 |
Inverness | 7 | 4 | 1 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 8 | 11 |
Oban | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Stirling | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Stranraer | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Wick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South East | 7696 | 4930 | 574 |
Ashford | 556 | 349 | 38 |
Basildon | 264 | 144 | 43 |
Bedford | 200 | 133 | 17 |
Brighton | 842 | 541 | 40 |
Cambridge | 238 | 122 | 30 |
Chatham | 466 | 355 | 23 |
Chelmsford | 408 | 265 | 33 |
Eastbourne | 98 | 64 | 8 |
Hastings | 243 | 177 | 10 |
High Wycombe | 321 | 192 | 32 |
Ipswich | 411 | 283 | 22 |
Kings Lynn | 181 | 91 | 13 |
Luton | 363 | 229 | 16 |
Margate | 257 | 162 | 20 |
Milton Keynes | 212 | 119 | 27 |
Norwich | 659 | 470 | 43 |
Oxford | 311 | 216 | 27 |
Peterborough | 307 | 165 | 33 |
Reading | 361 | 224 | 21 |
Southend | 95 | 33 | 21 |
Stevenage | 163 | 94 | 14 |
Watford | 740 | 502 | 43 |
South West | 5916 | 3428 | 625 |
Unallocated 3 | 177 | 115 | 11 |
Aldershot | 289 | 162 | 38 |
Barnstaple | 80 | 36 | 8 |
Bristol | 1167 | 724 | 122 |
Exeter | 224 | 80 | 49 |
Gloucester | 432 | 257 | 38 |
Havant | 657 | 440 | 45 |
Newport IOW | 222 | 153 | 13 |
Newton Abbot | 246 | 126 | 29 |
Plymouth | 384 | 193 | 55 |
Poole | 441 | 249 | 49 |
Salisbury | 46 | 10 | 10 |
Southampton | 606 | 401 | 40 |
Swindon | 320 | 218 | 23 |
Taunton | 239 | 134 | 24 |
Truro | 255 | 68 | 59 |
Worle | 131 | 62 | 12 |
Wales | 4181 | 2180 | 514 |
Aberystwyth | 49 | 24 | 6 |
Caernarfon | 101 | 23 | 15 |
Cardiff | 1746 | 949 | 250 |
Carmarthen | 72 | 15 | 19 |
Haverfordwest | 105 | 39 | 16 |
Langstone, Newport | 793 | 459 | 76 |
Llandrindod Wells | 32 | 16 | 8 |
Llangefni | 199 | 121 | 18 |
Port Talbot | 305 | 112 | 35 |
Prestatyn | 277 | 170 | 13 |
Swansea | 194 | 75 | 25 |
Welshpool | 52 | 31 | 8 |
Wrexham | 256 | 146 | 25 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 10 | 4 | 0 |
National | 48623 | 27241 | 6558 |
Disability Living Allowance at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 592 | 426 | 73 |
East London | 149 | 114 | 22 |
Enfield | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Fox Court | 264 | 180 | 36 |
Hatton Cross | 20 | 14 | 3 |
Romford | 54 | 41 | 4 |
Sutton | 103 | 75 | 8 |
Midlands | 597 | 394 | 91 |
Birmingham | 164 | 84 | 39 |
Boston | 10 | 9 | 0 |
Chesterfield | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Coventry | 46 | 35 | 4 |
Derby | 40 | 32 | 5 |
Hereford | 7 | 5 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 11 | 8 | 1 |
Leicester | 43 | 32 | 8 |
Lincoln | 36 | 25 | 1 |
Northampton | 26 | 19 | 4 |
Nottingham | 63 | 41 | 10 |
Nuneaton | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 20 | 15 | 3 |
Stoke | 30 | 23 | 4 |
Walsall | 19 | 10 | 1 |
Wellingborough | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 34 | 17 | 8 |
Worcester | 8 | 7 | 0 |
North East | 489 | 326 | 68 |
Barnsley | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Bedlington | 9 | 7 | 0 |
Bradford | 54 | 36 | 8 |
Darlington | 29 | 20 | 4 |
Doncaster | 14 | 5 | 2 |
Durham | 20 | 15 | 4 |
Gateshead | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Grimsby | 12 | 5 | 4 |
Huddersfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Hull | 23 | 16 | 5 |
Leeds | 30 | 8 | 12 |
Newcastle | 16 | 7 | 5 |
North Shields | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Scarborough | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Sheffield | 71 | 52 | 3 |
South Shields | 19 | 11 | 4 |
Sunderland | 40 | 29 | 3 |
Teesside | 67 | 61 | 1 |
Wakefield | 47 | 32 | 6 |
York | 7 | 4 | 2 |
North West | 535 | 372 | 87 |
Barrow | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Birkenhead | 32 | 19 | 7 |
Blackburn | 26 | 17 | 6 |
Blackpool | 19 | 10 | 2 |
Bolton | 30 | 20 | 5 |
Burnley | 14 | 11 | 2 |
Carlisle | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Chester | 20 | 14 | 4 |
Lancaster | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Liverpool | 70 | 45 | 12 |
Manchester | 113 | 89 | 14 |
Preston | 14 | 9 | 2 |
Rochdale | 40 | 25 | 10 |
St Helens | 42 | 27 | 9 |
Stockport | 60 | 49 | 4 |
Wigan | 31 | 21 | 6 |
Workington | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Scotland | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Glasgow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Inverness | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 1 | 1 | 0 |
South East | 555 | 427 | 52 |
Ashford | 33 | 24 | 3 |
Basildon | 25 | 15 | 5 |
Bedford | 20 | 16 | 1 |
Brighton | 46 | 36 | 2 |
Cambridge | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Chatham | 47 | 41 | 4 |
Chelmsford | 38 | 28 | 4 |
Eastbourne | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Hastings | 13 | 10 | 1 |
High Wycombe | 27 | 18 | 5 |
Ipswich | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Kings Lynn | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Luton | 27 | 26 | 0 |
Margate | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Milton Keynes | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Norwich | 46 | 37 | 3 |
Oxford | 23 | 18 | 1 |
Peterborough | 19 | 14 | 3 |
Reading | 26 | 23 | 0 |
Southend | 8 | 4 | 3 |
Stevenage | 12 | 8 | 1 |
Watford | 60 | 47 | 2 |
South West | 394 | 266 | 45 |
Unallocated 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Aldershot | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Barnstaple | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Bristol | 79 | 52 | 9 |
Exeter | 13 | 4 | 3 |
Gloucester | 27 | 15 | 4 |
Havant | 48 | 33 | 6 |
Newport IOW | 13 | 11 | 1 |
Newton Abbot | 12 | 8 | 0 |
Plymouth | 21 | 15 | 2 |
Poole | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Southampton | 36 | 26 | 5 |
Swindon | 24 | 19 | 2 |
Taunton | 21 | 17 | 2 |
Truro | 16 | 9 | 4 |
Worle | 12 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 247 | 148 | 35 |
Aberystwyth | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Caernarfon | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Cardiff | 115 | 61 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Haverfordwest | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Langstone, Newport | 45 | 33 | 3 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 13 | 10 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Prestatyn | 16 | 13 | 0 |
Swansea | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Welshpool | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wrexham | 21 | 14 | 1 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 1 | 0 | 0 |
National | 3418 | 2361 | 454 |
Employment and Support Allowance4 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 380 | 158 | 28 |
East London | 116 | 59 | 4 |
Enfield | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Fox Court | 149 | 47 | 17 |
Hatton Cross | 19 | 8 | 3 |
Romford | 24 | 12 | 2 |
Sutton | 70 | 32 | 2 |
Midlands | 667 | 351 | 88 |
Birmingham | 112 | 57 | 19 |
Boston | 21 | 11 | 1 |
Chesterfield | 33 | 14 | 7 |
Coventry | 48 | 29 | 5 |
Derby | 48 | 26 | 6 |
Hereford | 9 | 4 | 2 |
Kidderminster | 13 | 8 | 2 |
Leicester | 69 | 44 | 7 |
Lincoln | 17 | 8 | 1 |
Northampton | 32 | 14 | 4 |
Nottingham | 65 | 31 | 12 |
Nuneaton | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 38 | 21 | 7 |
Stoke | 49 | 29 | 0 |
Walsall | 25 | 13 | 4 |
Wellingborough | 11 | 6 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 56 | 25 | 8 |
Worcester | 14 | 9 | 2 |
North East | 468 | 188 | 62 |
Barnsley | 18 | 7 | 5 |
Bedlington | 14 | 2 | 3 |
Bradford | 41 | 17 | 3 |
Darlington | 23 | 8 | 2 |
Doncaster | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Durham | 22 | 8 | 4 |
Gateshead | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Grimsby | 19 | 7 | 2 |
Hull | 20 | 15 | 0 |
Leeds | 20 | 7 | 1 |
Newcastle | 25 | 9 | 3 |
North Shields | 19 | 3 | 5 |
Scarborough | 12 | 4 | 4 |
Sheffield | 40 | 15 | 6 |
South Shields | 27 | 8 | 1 |
Sunderland | 38 | 20 | 3 |
Teesside | 49 | 25 | 6 |
Wakefield | 42 | 18 | 7 |
York | 17 | 7 | 5 |
North West | 323 | 82 | 72 |
Barrow | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Blackburn | 13 | 3 | 3 |
Blackpool | 13 | 1 | 4 |
Bolton | 21 | 6 | 4 |
Burnley | 7 | 0 | 3 |
Carlisle | 9 | 1 | 1 |
Chester | 25 | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Liverpool | 38 | 16 | 7 |
Manchester | 50 | 15 | 12 |
Preston | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Rochdale | 28 | 6 | 5 |
St Helens | 21 | 1 | 2 |
Stockport | 40 | 17 | 9 |
Wigan | 24 | 4 | 9 |
Workington | 9 | 1 | 3 |
Scotland | 214 | 20 | 70 |
Aberdeen | 13 | 0 | 3 |
Ayr | 17 | 1 | 6 |
Campbeltown Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 9 | 0 | 7 |
Dundee | 12 | 0 | 3 |
Dunfermline | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh | 27 | 1 | 15 |
Galashiels | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Glasgow | 50 | 6 | 18 |
Greenock | 12 | 3 | 0 |
Hamilton | 19 | 3 | 3 |
Inverness | 14 | 0 | 6 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Lerwick | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling | 17 | 2 | 4 |
South East | 420 | 209 | 48 |
Ashford | 20 | 10 | 1 |
Basildon | 16 | 7 | 2 |
Bedford | 13 | 7 | 1 |
Brighton | 39 | 20 | 6 |
Cambridge | 11 | 5 | 1 |
Chatham | 16 | 8 | 3 |
Chelmsford | 37 | 18 | 3 |
Eastbourne | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Hastings | 9 | 3 | 4 |
High Wycombe | 19 | 8 | 1 |
Ipswich | 25 | 14 | 1 |
Kings Lynn | 15 | 7 | 3 |
Luton | 22 | 13 | 1 |
Margate | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Milton Keynes | 9 | 5 | 1 |
Norwich | 36 | 17 | 5 |
Oxford | 21 | 13 | 3 |
Peterborough | 32 | 12 | 3 |
Reading | 34 | 19 | 4 |
Southend | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Stevenage | 9 | 6 | 1 |
Watford | 29 | 12 | 4 |
South West | 490 | 295 | 15 |
Unallocated 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Aldershot | 31 | 24 | 0 |
Barnstaple | 6 | 4 | 0 |
Bristol | 80 | 42 | 4 |
Exeter | 12 | 5 | 1 |
Gloucester | 35 | 21 | 0 |
Havant | 65 | 43 | 1 |
Newport IOW | 27 | 21 | 2 |
Newton Abbot | 26 | 15 | 0 |
Plymouth | 31 | 19 | 0 |
Poole | 32 | 25 | 1 |
Salisbury | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Southampton | 49 | 26 | 1 |
Swindon | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Taunton | 22 | 12 | 0 |
Truro | 21 | 12 | 0 |
Worle | 15 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 434 | 278 | 13 |
Aberystwyth | 10 | 5 | 3 |
Caernarfon | 10 | 6 | 1 |
Cardiff | 155 | 108 | 3 |
Carmarthen | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 13 | 8 | 0 |
Langstone, Newport | 88 | 55 | 1 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 23 | 15 | 0 |
Port Talbot | 37 | 26 | 0 |
Prestatyn | 24 | 14 | 2 |
Swansea | 27 | 11 | 0 |
Welshpool | 13 | 6 | 3 |
Wrexham | 23 | 17 | 0 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 3 | 0 | 2 |
National | 3399 | 1581 | 398 |
Universal Credit5 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 2659 | 1361 | 215 |
East London | 566 | 294 | 57 |
Enfield | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Fox Court | 1468 | 754 | 94 |
Hatton Cross | 102 | 40 | 13 |
Romford | 169 | 85 | 34 |
Sutton | 346 | 186 | 16 |
Midlands | 2602 | 1489 | 406 |
Birmingham | 713 | 381 | 142 |
Boston | 51 | 34 | 7 |
Chesterfield | 62 | 34 | 11 |
Coventry | 202 | 125 | 14 |
Derby | 159 | 87 | 31 |
Hereford | 21 | 16 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 20 | 15 | 2 |
Leicester | 265 | 160 | 29 |
Lincoln | 123 | 74 | 19 |
Northampton | 126 | 82 | 16 |
Nottingham | 253 | 148 | 50 |
Nuneaton | 11 | 7 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 78 | 45 | 7 |
Stoke | 99 | 55 | 9 |
Walsall | 116 | 64 | 15 |
Wellingborough | 43 | 29 | 6 |
Wolverhampton | 218 | 109 | 44 |
Worcester | 42 | 24 | 4 |
North East | 2007 | 1012 | 385 |
Barnsley | 55 | 26 | 13 |
Bedlington | 46 | 20 | 15 |
Berwick | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Bradford | 208 | 118 | 30 |
Darlington | 70 | 26 | 19 |
Doncaster | 84 | 31 | 18 |
Durham | 40 | 17 | 7 |
Gateshead | 24 | 11 | 10 |
Grimsby | 69 | 41 | 11 |
Huddersfield | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hull | 108 | 62 | 16 |
Leeds | 173 | 68 | 30 |
Newcastle | 229 | 109 | 48 |
North Shields | 45 | 16 | 9 |
Scarborough | 49 | 24 | 15 |
Sheffield | 160 | 67 | 40 |
South Shields | 71 | 40 | 13 |
Sunderland | 124 | 79 | 12 |
Teesside | 227 | 137 | 37 |
Wakefield | 170 | 88 | 32 |
York | 47 | 29 | 10 |
North West | 1512 | 572 | 308 |
Barrow | 12 | 6 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 34 | 15 | 5 |
Blackburn | 33 | 15 | 2 |
Blackpool | 54 | 13 | 10 |
Bolton | 107 | 32 | 24 |
Burnley | 65 | 29 | 8 |
Carlisle | 29 | 14 | 4 |
Chester | 61 | 17 | 6 |
Lancaster | 27 | 13 | 3 |
Liverpool | 179 | 49 | 34 |
Manchester | 467 | 226 | 112 |
Preston | 35 | 7 | 8 |
Rochdale | 91 | 23 | 17 |
St Helens | 79 | 34 | 13 |
Stockport | 141 | 45 | 43 |
Wigan | 85 | 29 | 17 |
Workington | 13 | 5 | 1 |
Scotland | 658 | 187 | 219 |
Aberdeen | 33 | 8 | 15 |
Ayr | 40 | 12 | 13 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 13 | 1 | 5 |
Dundee | 44 | 10 | 13 |
Dunfermline | 14 | 3 | 2 |
Edinburgh | 120 | 31 | 40 |
Galashiels | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Glasgow | 206 | 64 | 71 |
Greenock | 25 | 6 | 10 |
Hamilton | 59 | 17 | 19 |
Inverness | 22 | 3 | 9 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 9 | 4 |
Kirkwall | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lerwick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lewis | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Oban | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Stirling | 29 | 13 | 9 |
Stranraer | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Wick | 4 | 1 | 1 |
South East | 2002 | 1053 | 321 |
Ashford | 117 | 47 | 28 |
Basildon | 70 | 24 | 19 |
Bedford | 48 | 30 | 6 |
Brighton | 173 | 76 | 35 |
Cambridge | 68 | 33 | 11 |
Chatham | 70 | 27 | 21 |
Chelmsford | 107 | 62 | 11 |
Eastbourne | 26 | 15 | 3 |
Hastings | 43 | 27 | 8 |
High Wycombe | 125 | 70 | 14 |
Ipswich | 89 | 54 | 8 |
Kings Lynn | 36 | 18 | 12 |
Luton | 110 | 65 | 16 |
Margate | 39 | 18 | 8 |
Milton Keynes | 48 | 27 | 6 |
Norwich | 145 | 86 | 22 |
Oxford | 111 | 66 | 13 |
Peterborough | 91 | 45 | 14 |
Reading | 141 | 73 | 21 |
Southend | 65 | 37 | 16 |
Stevenage | 45 | 27 | 2 |
Watford | 235 | 126 | 27 |
South West | 1744 | 1121 | 65 |
Unallocated 3 | 43 | 26 | 2 |
Aldershot | 120 | 74 | 5 |
Barnstaple | 24 | 15 | 0 |
Bristol | 342 | 219 | 11 |
Exeter | 59 | 32 | 0 |
Gloucester | 136 | 99 | 7 |
Havant | 187 | 133 | 5 |
Newport IOW | 49 | 35 | 4 |
Newton Abbot | 61 | 34 | 4 |
Plymouth | 84 | 52 | 0 |
Poole | 159 | 96 | 9 |
Salisbury | 15 | 6 | 1 |
Southampton | 162 | 106 | 5 |
Swindon | 108 | 71 | 5 |
Taunton | 71 | 42 | 0 |
Truro | 87 | 58 | 3 |
Worle | 37 | 23 | 4 |
Wales | 1019 | 712 | 62 |
Aberystwyth | 16 | 8 | 1 |
Caernarfon | 53 | 32 | 6 |
Cardiff | 389 | 277 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 20 | 14 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 28 | 19 | 1 |
Langstone, Newport | 179 | 133 | 9 |
Llandrindod Wells | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Llangefni | 27 | 20 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 91 | 68 | 3 |
Prestatyn | 74 | 46 | 9 |
Swansea | 58 | 43 | 3 |
Welshpool | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Wrexham | 67 | 41 | 8 |
National | 14203 | 7507 | 1981 |
From April 2023 the SSCS Tribunal started to list cases using a new Scheduling and Listing solution. This, alongside HMCTS migrating to a new Strategic Data Platform, has resulted in some cases heard and decided using this new listing solution not currently being included in the data above.
1. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)
2. Data pulled 23/4/2024
3. Unallocated relates to appeals that have not yet been allocated to a venue.
4. Data includes Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit reassessment. Employment and Support Allowance was introduced in October 2008 and Incapacity Benefit reassessment followed in October 2010.
5. Universal Credit was introduced on 29 April 2013 in selected areas of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and has been gradually rolled out to the rest of the UK from October 2013.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Management information reflects the data held on the case management system, which is subject to change, and can differ from the quality-assured MOJ official statistics, which form the agreed definitive position.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The tables below set out the number of Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit appeals awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, and (d) by hearing venue as at end of December 2023 (the latest period for which data are available). There are no separate data collated at (c) tribunal office level.
Information about the average length of time between appeals being lodged and heard; and in how many case the length of time waited has exceeded this average is not held centrally.
Personal Independence Payment1 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 6804 | 3861 | 980 |
Bexleyheath | 1 | 1 | 0 |
East London | 1543 | 905 | 234 |
Enfield | 27 | 11 | 3 |
Fox Court | 3318 | 1846 | 483 |
Hatton Cross | 243 | 98 | 72 |
Romford | 512 | 353 | 67 |
Sutton | 1160 | 647 | 121 |
Midlands | 9330 | 5052 | 1369 |
Birmingham | 1984 | 1007 | 354 |
Boston | 202 | 134 | 25 |
Chesterfield | 457 | 255 | 57 |
Coventry | 698 | 442 | 71 |
Derby | 701 | 417 | 91 |
Hereford | 101 | 43 | 20 |
Kidderminster | 144 | 60 | 30 |
Leicester | 813 | 415 | 108 |
Lincoln | 427 | 258 | 46 |
Northampton | 488 | 328 | 56 |
Nottingham | 1135 | 610 | 168 |
Nuneaton | 99 | 58 | 13 |
Shrewsbury | 333 | 185 | 46 |
Stoke | 427 | 228 | 63 |
Walsall | 316 | 136 | 66 |
Wellingborough | 196 | 114 | 22 |
Wolverhampton | 637 | 262 | 110 |
Worcester | 172 | 100 | 23 |
North East | 7061 | 3468 | 1316 |
Barnsley | 193 | 71 | 38 |
Bedlington | 159 | 66 | 44 |
Berwick | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Bradford | 691 | 334 | 131 |
Darlington | 356 | 195 | 49 |
Doncaster | 316 | 142 | 51 |
Durham | 333 | 169 | 77 |
Gateshead | 78 | 33 | 21 |
Grimsby | 186 | 80 | 37 |
Huddersfield | 32 | 10 | 8 |
Hull | 342 | 181 | 65 |
Leeds | 514 | 165 | 132 |
Newcastle | 332 | 122 | 80 |
North Shields | 134 | 34 | 46 |
Scarborough | 158 | 75 | 29 |
Sheffield | 737 | 381 | 119 |
South Shields | 233 | 112 | 53 |
Sunderland | 545 | 349 | 53 |
Teesside | 871 | 581 | 85 |
Wakefield | 687 | 322 | 138 |
York | 150 | 40 | 57 |
North West | 7362 | 4250 | 1066 |
Barrow | 84 | 53 | 10 |
Birkenhead | 355 | 223 | 43 |
Blackburn | 311 | 180 | 58 |
Blackpool | 355 | 189 | 69 |
Bolton | 414 | 231 | 69 |
Burnley | 263 | 151 | 31 |
Carlisle | 165 | 86 | 32 |
Chester | 500 | 315 | 65 |
Lancaster | 105 | 66 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1023 | 495 | 155 |
Manchester | 1319 | 821 | 164 |
Preston | 248 | 123 | 58 |
Rochdale | 436 | 216 | 90 |
St Helens | 512 | 301 | 73 |
Stockport | 699 | 451 | 68 |
Wigan | 427 | 267 | 49 |
Workington | 146 | 82 | 31 |
Scotland | 263 | 68 | 114 |
Aberdeen | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ayr | 11 | 1 | 4 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Dundee | 6 | 0 | 2 |
Dunfermline | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Edinburgh | 70 | 19 | 36 |
Galashiels | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Glasgow | 89 | 24 | 36 |
Greenock | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Hamilton | 24 | 3 | 6 |
Inverness | 7 | 4 | 1 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 8 | 11 |
Oban | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Stirling | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Stranraer | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Wick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South East | 7696 | 4930 | 574 |
Ashford | 556 | 349 | 38 |
Basildon | 264 | 144 | 43 |
Bedford | 200 | 133 | 17 |
Brighton | 842 | 541 | 40 |
Cambridge | 238 | 122 | 30 |
Chatham | 466 | 355 | 23 |
Chelmsford | 408 | 265 | 33 |
Eastbourne | 98 | 64 | 8 |
Hastings | 243 | 177 | 10 |
High Wycombe | 321 | 192 | 32 |
Ipswich | 411 | 283 | 22 |
Kings Lynn | 181 | 91 | 13 |
Luton | 363 | 229 | 16 |
Margate | 257 | 162 | 20 |
Milton Keynes | 212 | 119 | 27 |
Norwich | 659 | 470 | 43 |
Oxford | 311 | 216 | 27 |
Peterborough | 307 | 165 | 33 |
Reading | 361 | 224 | 21 |
Southend | 95 | 33 | 21 |
Stevenage | 163 | 94 | 14 |
Watford | 740 | 502 | 43 |
South West | 5916 | 3428 | 625 |
Unallocated 3 | 177 | 115 | 11 |
Aldershot | 289 | 162 | 38 |
Barnstaple | 80 | 36 | 8 |
Bristol | 1167 | 724 | 122 |
Exeter | 224 | 80 | 49 |
Gloucester | 432 | 257 | 38 |
Havant | 657 | 440 | 45 |
Newport IOW | 222 | 153 | 13 |
Newton Abbot | 246 | 126 | 29 |
Plymouth | 384 | 193 | 55 |
Poole | 441 | 249 | 49 |
Salisbury | 46 | 10 | 10 |
Southampton | 606 | 401 | 40 |
Swindon | 320 | 218 | 23 |
Taunton | 239 | 134 | 24 |
Truro | 255 | 68 | 59 |
Worle | 131 | 62 | 12 |
Wales | 4181 | 2180 | 514 |
Aberystwyth | 49 | 24 | 6 |
Caernarfon | 101 | 23 | 15 |
Cardiff | 1746 | 949 | 250 |
Carmarthen | 72 | 15 | 19 |
Haverfordwest | 105 | 39 | 16 |
Langstone, Newport | 793 | 459 | 76 |
Llandrindod Wells | 32 | 16 | 8 |
Llangefni | 199 | 121 | 18 |
Port Talbot | 305 | 112 | 35 |
Prestatyn | 277 | 170 | 13 |
Swansea | 194 | 75 | 25 |
Welshpool | 52 | 31 | 8 |
Wrexham | 256 | 146 | 25 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 10 | 4 | 0 |
National | 48623 | 27241 | 6558 |
Disability Living Allowance at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 592 | 426 | 73 |
East London | 149 | 114 | 22 |
Enfield | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Fox Court | 264 | 180 | 36 |
Hatton Cross | 20 | 14 | 3 |
Romford | 54 | 41 | 4 |
Sutton | 103 | 75 | 8 |
Midlands | 597 | 394 | 91 |
Birmingham | 164 | 84 | 39 |
Boston | 10 | 9 | 0 |
Chesterfield | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Coventry | 46 | 35 | 4 |
Derby | 40 | 32 | 5 |
Hereford | 7 | 5 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 11 | 8 | 1 |
Leicester | 43 | 32 | 8 |
Lincoln | 36 | 25 | 1 |
Northampton | 26 | 19 | 4 |
Nottingham | 63 | 41 | 10 |
Nuneaton | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 20 | 15 | 3 |
Stoke | 30 | 23 | 4 |
Walsall | 19 | 10 | 1 |
Wellingborough | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 34 | 17 | 8 |
Worcester | 8 | 7 | 0 |
North East | 489 | 326 | 68 |
Barnsley | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Bedlington | 9 | 7 | 0 |
Bradford | 54 | 36 | 8 |
Darlington | 29 | 20 | 4 |
Doncaster | 14 | 5 | 2 |
Durham | 20 | 15 | 4 |
Gateshead | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Grimsby | 12 | 5 | 4 |
Huddersfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Hull | 23 | 16 | 5 |
Leeds | 30 | 8 | 12 |
Newcastle | 16 | 7 | 5 |
North Shields | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Scarborough | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Sheffield | 71 | 52 | 3 |
South Shields | 19 | 11 | 4 |
Sunderland | 40 | 29 | 3 |
Teesside | 67 | 61 | 1 |
Wakefield | 47 | 32 | 6 |
York | 7 | 4 | 2 |
North West | 535 | 372 | 87 |
Barrow | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Birkenhead | 32 | 19 | 7 |
Blackburn | 26 | 17 | 6 |
Blackpool | 19 | 10 | 2 |
Bolton | 30 | 20 | 5 |
Burnley | 14 | 11 | 2 |
Carlisle | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Chester | 20 | 14 | 4 |
Lancaster | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Liverpool | 70 | 45 | 12 |
Manchester | 113 | 89 | 14 |
Preston | 14 | 9 | 2 |
Rochdale | 40 | 25 | 10 |
St Helens | 42 | 27 | 9 |
Stockport | 60 | 49 | 4 |
Wigan | 31 | 21 | 6 |
Workington | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Scotland | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Glasgow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Inverness | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 1 | 1 | 0 |
South East | 555 | 427 | 52 |
Ashford | 33 | 24 | 3 |
Basildon | 25 | 15 | 5 |
Bedford | 20 | 16 | 1 |
Brighton | 46 | 36 | 2 |
Cambridge | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Chatham | 47 | 41 | 4 |
Chelmsford | 38 | 28 | 4 |
Eastbourne | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Hastings | 13 | 10 | 1 |
High Wycombe | 27 | 18 | 5 |
Ipswich | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Kings Lynn | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Luton | 27 | 26 | 0 |
Margate | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Milton Keynes | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Norwich | 46 | 37 | 3 |
Oxford | 23 | 18 | 1 |
Peterborough | 19 | 14 | 3 |
Reading | 26 | 23 | 0 |
Southend | 8 | 4 | 3 |
Stevenage | 12 | 8 | 1 |
Watford | 60 | 47 | 2 |
South West | 394 | 266 | 45 |
Unallocated 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Aldershot | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Barnstaple | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Bristol | 79 | 52 | 9 |
Exeter | 13 | 4 | 3 |
Gloucester | 27 | 15 | 4 |
Havant | 48 | 33 | 6 |
Newport IOW | 13 | 11 | 1 |
Newton Abbot | 12 | 8 | 0 |
Plymouth | 21 | 15 | 2 |
Poole | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Southampton | 36 | 26 | 5 |
Swindon | 24 | 19 | 2 |
Taunton | 21 | 17 | 2 |
Truro | 16 | 9 | 4 |
Worle | 12 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 247 | 148 | 35 |
Aberystwyth | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Caernarfon | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Cardiff | 115 | 61 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Haverfordwest | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Langstone, Newport | 45 | 33 | 3 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 13 | 10 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Prestatyn | 16 | 13 | 0 |
Swansea | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Welshpool | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wrexham | 21 | 14 | 1 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 1 | 0 | 0 |
National | 3418 | 2361 | 454 |
Employment and Support Allowance4 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 380 | 158 | 28 |
East London | 116 | 59 | 4 |
Enfield | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Fox Court | 149 | 47 | 17 |
Hatton Cross | 19 | 8 | 3 |
Romford | 24 | 12 | 2 |
Sutton | 70 | 32 | 2 |
Midlands | 667 | 351 | 88 |
Birmingham | 112 | 57 | 19 |
Boston | 21 | 11 | 1 |
Chesterfield | 33 | 14 | 7 |
Coventry | 48 | 29 | 5 |
Derby | 48 | 26 | 6 |
Hereford | 9 | 4 | 2 |
Kidderminster | 13 | 8 | 2 |
Leicester | 69 | 44 | 7 |
Lincoln | 17 | 8 | 1 |
Northampton | 32 | 14 | 4 |
Nottingham | 65 | 31 | 12 |
Nuneaton | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 38 | 21 | 7 |
Stoke | 49 | 29 | 0 |
Walsall | 25 | 13 | 4 |
Wellingborough | 11 | 6 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 56 | 25 | 8 |
Worcester | 14 | 9 | 2 |
North East | 468 | 188 | 62 |
Barnsley | 18 | 7 | 5 |
Bedlington | 14 | 2 | 3 |
Bradford | 41 | 17 | 3 |
Darlington | 23 | 8 | 2 |
Doncaster | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Durham | 22 | 8 | 4 |
Gateshead | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Grimsby | 19 | 7 | 2 |
Hull | 20 | 15 | 0 |
Leeds | 20 | 7 | 1 |
Newcastle | 25 | 9 | 3 |
North Shields | 19 | 3 | 5 |
Scarborough | 12 | 4 | 4 |
Sheffield | 40 | 15 | 6 |
South Shields | 27 | 8 | 1 |
Sunderland | 38 | 20 | 3 |
Teesside | 49 | 25 | 6 |
Wakefield | 42 | 18 | 7 |
York | 17 | 7 | 5 |
North West | 323 | 82 | 72 |
Barrow | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Blackburn | 13 | 3 | 3 |
Blackpool | 13 | 1 | 4 |
Bolton | 21 | 6 | 4 |
Burnley | 7 | 0 | 3 |
Carlisle | 9 | 1 | 1 |
Chester | 25 | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Liverpool | 38 | 16 | 7 |
Manchester | 50 | 15 | 12 |
Preston | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Rochdale | 28 | 6 | 5 |
St Helens | 21 | 1 | 2 |
Stockport | 40 | 17 | 9 |
Wigan | 24 | 4 | 9 |
Workington | 9 | 1 | 3 |
Scotland | 214 | 20 | 70 |
Aberdeen | 13 | 0 | 3 |
Ayr | 17 | 1 | 6 |
Campbeltown Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 9 | 0 | 7 |
Dundee | 12 | 0 | 3 |
Dunfermline | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh | 27 | 1 | 15 |
Galashiels | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Glasgow | 50 | 6 | 18 |
Greenock | 12 | 3 | 0 |
Hamilton | 19 | 3 | 3 |
Inverness | 14 | 0 | 6 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Lerwick | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling | 17 | 2 | 4 |
South East | 420 | 209 | 48 |
Ashford | 20 | 10 | 1 |
Basildon | 16 | 7 | 2 |
Bedford | 13 | 7 | 1 |
Brighton | 39 | 20 | 6 |
Cambridge | 11 | 5 | 1 |
Chatham | 16 | 8 | 3 |
Chelmsford | 37 | 18 | 3 |
Eastbourne | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Hastings | 9 | 3 | 4 |
High Wycombe | 19 | 8 | 1 |
Ipswich | 25 | 14 | 1 |
Kings Lynn | 15 | 7 | 3 |
Luton | 22 | 13 | 1 |
Margate | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Milton Keynes | 9 | 5 | 1 |
Norwich | 36 | 17 | 5 |
Oxford | 21 | 13 | 3 |
Peterborough | 32 | 12 | 3 |
Reading | 34 | 19 | 4 |
Southend | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Stevenage | 9 | 6 | 1 |
Watford | 29 | 12 | 4 |
South West | 490 | 295 | 15 |
Unallocated 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Aldershot | 31 | 24 | 0 |
Barnstaple | 6 | 4 | 0 |
Bristol | 80 | 42 | 4 |
Exeter | 12 | 5 | 1 |
Gloucester | 35 | 21 | 0 |
Havant | 65 | 43 | 1 |
Newport IOW | 27 | 21 | 2 |
Newton Abbot | 26 | 15 | 0 |
Plymouth | 31 | 19 | 0 |
Poole | 32 | 25 | 1 |
Salisbury | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Southampton | 49 | 26 | 1 |
Swindon | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Taunton | 22 | 12 | 0 |
Truro | 21 | 12 | 0 |
Worle | 15 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 434 | 278 | 13 |
Aberystwyth | 10 | 5 | 3 |
Caernarfon | 10 | 6 | 1 |
Cardiff | 155 | 108 | 3 |
Carmarthen | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 13 | 8 | 0 |
Langstone, Newport | 88 | 55 | 1 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 23 | 15 | 0 |
Port Talbot | 37 | 26 | 0 |
Prestatyn | 24 | 14 | 2 |
Swansea | 27 | 11 | 0 |
Welshpool | 13 | 6 | 3 |
Wrexham | 23 | 17 | 0 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 3 | 0 | 2 |
National | 3399 | 1581 | 398 |
Universal Credit5 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 2659 | 1361 | 215 |
East London | 566 | 294 | 57 |
Enfield | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Fox Court | 1468 | 754 | 94 |
Hatton Cross | 102 | 40 | 13 |
Romford | 169 | 85 | 34 |
Sutton | 346 | 186 | 16 |
Midlands | 2602 | 1489 | 406 |
Birmingham | 713 | 381 | 142 |
Boston | 51 | 34 | 7 |
Chesterfield | 62 | 34 | 11 |
Coventry | 202 | 125 | 14 |
Derby | 159 | 87 | 31 |
Hereford | 21 | 16 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 20 | 15 | 2 |
Leicester | 265 | 160 | 29 |
Lincoln | 123 | 74 | 19 |
Northampton | 126 | 82 | 16 |
Nottingham | 253 | 148 | 50 |
Nuneaton | 11 | 7 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 78 | 45 | 7 |
Stoke | 99 | 55 | 9 |
Walsall | 116 | 64 | 15 |
Wellingborough | 43 | 29 | 6 |
Wolverhampton | 218 | 109 | 44 |
Worcester | 42 | 24 | 4 |
North East | 2007 | 1012 | 385 |
Barnsley | 55 | 26 | 13 |
Bedlington | 46 | 20 | 15 |
Berwick | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Bradford | 208 | 118 | 30 |
Darlington | 70 | 26 | 19 |
Doncaster | 84 | 31 | 18 |
Durham | 40 | 17 | 7 |
Gateshead | 24 | 11 | 10 |
Grimsby | 69 | 41 | 11 |
Huddersfield | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hull | 108 | 62 | 16 |
Leeds | 173 | 68 | 30 |
Newcastle | 229 | 109 | 48 |
North Shields | 45 | 16 | 9 |
Scarborough | 49 | 24 | 15 |
Sheffield | 160 | 67 | 40 |
South Shields | 71 | 40 | 13 |
Sunderland | 124 | 79 | 12 |
Teesside | 227 | 137 | 37 |
Wakefield | 170 | 88 | 32 |
York | 47 | 29 | 10 |
North West | 1512 | 572 | 308 |
Barrow | 12 | 6 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 34 | 15 | 5 |
Blackburn | 33 | 15 | 2 |
Blackpool | 54 | 13 | 10 |
Bolton | 107 | 32 | 24 |
Burnley | 65 | 29 | 8 |
Carlisle | 29 | 14 | 4 |
Chester | 61 | 17 | 6 |
Lancaster | 27 | 13 | 3 |
Liverpool | 179 | 49 | 34 |
Manchester | 467 | 226 | 112 |
Preston | 35 | 7 | 8 |
Rochdale | 91 | 23 | 17 |
St Helens | 79 | 34 | 13 |
Stockport | 141 | 45 | 43 |
Wigan | 85 | 29 | 17 |
Workington | 13 | 5 | 1 |
Scotland | 658 | 187 | 219 |
Aberdeen | 33 | 8 | 15 |
Ayr | 40 | 12 | 13 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 13 | 1 | 5 |
Dundee | 44 | 10 | 13 |
Dunfermline | 14 | 3 | 2 |
Edinburgh | 120 | 31 | 40 |
Galashiels | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Glasgow | 206 | 64 | 71 |
Greenock | 25 | 6 | 10 |
Hamilton | 59 | 17 | 19 |
Inverness | 22 | 3 | 9 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 9 | 4 |
Kirkwall | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lerwick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lewis | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Oban | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Stirling | 29 | 13 | 9 |
Stranraer | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Wick | 4 | 1 | 1 |
South East | 2002 | 1053 | 321 |
Ashford | 117 | 47 | 28 |
Basildon | 70 | 24 | 19 |
Bedford | 48 | 30 | 6 |
Brighton | 173 | 76 | 35 |
Cambridge | 68 | 33 | 11 |
Chatham | 70 | 27 | 21 |
Chelmsford | 107 | 62 | 11 |
Eastbourne | 26 | 15 | 3 |
Hastings | 43 | 27 | 8 |
High Wycombe | 125 | 70 | 14 |
Ipswich | 89 | 54 | 8 |
Kings Lynn | 36 | 18 | 12 |
Luton | 110 | 65 | 16 |
Margate | 39 | 18 | 8 |
Milton Keynes | 48 | 27 | 6 |
Norwich | 145 | 86 | 22 |
Oxford | 111 | 66 | 13 |
Peterborough | 91 | 45 | 14 |
Reading | 141 | 73 | 21 |
Southend | 65 | 37 | 16 |
Stevenage | 45 | 27 | 2 |
Watford | 235 | 126 | 27 |
South West | 1744 | 1121 | 65 |
Unallocated 3 | 43 | 26 | 2 |
Aldershot | 120 | 74 | 5 |
Barnstaple | 24 | 15 | 0 |
Bristol | 342 | 219 | 11 |
Exeter | 59 | 32 | 0 |
Gloucester | 136 | 99 | 7 |
Havant | 187 | 133 | 5 |
Newport IOW | 49 | 35 | 4 |
Newton Abbot | 61 | 34 | 4 |
Plymouth | 84 | 52 | 0 |
Poole | 159 | 96 | 9 |
Salisbury | 15 | 6 | 1 |
Southampton | 162 | 106 | 5 |
Swindon | 108 | 71 | 5 |
Taunton | 71 | 42 | 0 |
Truro | 87 | 58 | 3 |
Worle | 37 | 23 | 4 |
Wales | 1019 | 712 | 62 |
Aberystwyth | 16 | 8 | 1 |
Caernarfon | 53 | 32 | 6 |
Cardiff | 389 | 277 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 20 | 14 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 28 | 19 | 1 |
Langstone, Newport | 179 | 133 | 9 |
Llandrindod Wells | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Llangefni | 27 | 20 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 91 | 68 | 3 |
Prestatyn | 74 | 46 | 9 |
Swansea | 58 | 43 | 3 |
Welshpool | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Wrexham | 67 | 41 | 8 |
National | 14203 | 7507 | 1981 |
From April 2023 the SSCS Tribunal started to list cases using a new Scheduling and Listing solution. This, alongside HMCTS migrating to a new Strategic Data Platform, has resulted in some cases heard and decided using this new listing solution not currently being included in the data above.
1. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)
2. Data pulled 23/4/2024
3. Unallocated relates to appeals that have not yet been allocated to a venue.
4. Data includes Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit reassessment. Employment and Support Allowance was introduced in October 2008 and Incapacity Benefit reassessment followed in October 2010.
5. Universal Credit was introduced on 29 April 2013 in selected areas of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and has been gradually rolled out to the rest of the UK from October 2013.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Management information reflects the data held on the case management system, which is subject to change, and can differ from the quality-assured MOJ official statistics, which form the agreed definitive position.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The tables below set out the number of Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit appeals awaiting a hearing (a) nationally, (b) by region, and (d) by hearing venue as at end of December 2023 (the latest period for which data are available). There are no separate data collated at (c) tribunal office level.
Information about the average length of time between appeals being lodged and heard; and in how many case the length of time waited has exceeded this average is not held centrally.
Personal Independence Payment1 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 6804 | 3861 | 980 |
Bexleyheath | 1 | 1 | 0 |
East London | 1543 | 905 | 234 |
Enfield | 27 | 11 | 3 |
Fox Court | 3318 | 1846 | 483 |
Hatton Cross | 243 | 98 | 72 |
Romford | 512 | 353 | 67 |
Sutton | 1160 | 647 | 121 |
Midlands | 9330 | 5052 | 1369 |
Birmingham | 1984 | 1007 | 354 |
Boston | 202 | 134 | 25 |
Chesterfield | 457 | 255 | 57 |
Coventry | 698 | 442 | 71 |
Derby | 701 | 417 | 91 |
Hereford | 101 | 43 | 20 |
Kidderminster | 144 | 60 | 30 |
Leicester | 813 | 415 | 108 |
Lincoln | 427 | 258 | 46 |
Northampton | 488 | 328 | 56 |
Nottingham | 1135 | 610 | 168 |
Nuneaton | 99 | 58 | 13 |
Shrewsbury | 333 | 185 | 46 |
Stoke | 427 | 228 | 63 |
Walsall | 316 | 136 | 66 |
Wellingborough | 196 | 114 | 22 |
Wolverhampton | 637 | 262 | 110 |
Worcester | 172 | 100 | 23 |
North East | 7061 | 3468 | 1316 |
Barnsley | 193 | 71 | 38 |
Bedlington | 159 | 66 | 44 |
Berwick | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Bradford | 691 | 334 | 131 |
Darlington | 356 | 195 | 49 |
Doncaster | 316 | 142 | 51 |
Durham | 333 | 169 | 77 |
Gateshead | 78 | 33 | 21 |
Grimsby | 186 | 80 | 37 |
Huddersfield | 32 | 10 | 8 |
Hull | 342 | 181 | 65 |
Leeds | 514 | 165 | 132 |
Newcastle | 332 | 122 | 80 |
North Shields | 134 | 34 | 46 |
Scarborough | 158 | 75 | 29 |
Sheffield | 737 | 381 | 119 |
South Shields | 233 | 112 | 53 |
Sunderland | 545 | 349 | 53 |
Teesside | 871 | 581 | 85 |
Wakefield | 687 | 322 | 138 |
York | 150 | 40 | 57 |
North West | 7362 | 4250 | 1066 |
Barrow | 84 | 53 | 10 |
Birkenhead | 355 | 223 | 43 |
Blackburn | 311 | 180 | 58 |
Blackpool | 355 | 189 | 69 |
Bolton | 414 | 231 | 69 |
Burnley | 263 | 151 | 31 |
Carlisle | 165 | 86 | 32 |
Chester | 500 | 315 | 65 |
Lancaster | 105 | 66 | 1 |
Liverpool | 1023 | 495 | 155 |
Manchester | 1319 | 821 | 164 |
Preston | 248 | 123 | 58 |
Rochdale | 436 | 216 | 90 |
St Helens | 512 | 301 | 73 |
Stockport | 699 | 451 | 68 |
Wigan | 427 | 267 | 49 |
Workington | 146 | 82 | 31 |
Scotland | 263 | 68 | 114 |
Aberdeen | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ayr | 11 | 1 | 4 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Dundee | 6 | 0 | 2 |
Dunfermline | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Edinburgh | 70 | 19 | 36 |
Galashiels | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Glasgow | 89 | 24 | 36 |
Greenock | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Hamilton | 24 | 3 | 6 |
Inverness | 7 | 4 | 1 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 8 | 11 |
Oban | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Stirling | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Stranraer | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Wick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
South East | 7696 | 4930 | 574 |
Ashford | 556 | 349 | 38 |
Basildon | 264 | 144 | 43 |
Bedford | 200 | 133 | 17 |
Brighton | 842 | 541 | 40 |
Cambridge | 238 | 122 | 30 |
Chatham | 466 | 355 | 23 |
Chelmsford | 408 | 265 | 33 |
Eastbourne | 98 | 64 | 8 |
Hastings | 243 | 177 | 10 |
High Wycombe | 321 | 192 | 32 |
Ipswich | 411 | 283 | 22 |
Kings Lynn | 181 | 91 | 13 |
Luton | 363 | 229 | 16 |
Margate | 257 | 162 | 20 |
Milton Keynes | 212 | 119 | 27 |
Norwich | 659 | 470 | 43 |
Oxford | 311 | 216 | 27 |
Peterborough | 307 | 165 | 33 |
Reading | 361 | 224 | 21 |
Southend | 95 | 33 | 21 |
Stevenage | 163 | 94 | 14 |
Watford | 740 | 502 | 43 |
South West | 5916 | 3428 | 625 |
Unallocated 3 | 177 | 115 | 11 |
Aldershot | 289 | 162 | 38 |
Barnstaple | 80 | 36 | 8 |
Bristol | 1167 | 724 | 122 |
Exeter | 224 | 80 | 49 |
Gloucester | 432 | 257 | 38 |
Havant | 657 | 440 | 45 |
Newport IOW | 222 | 153 | 13 |
Newton Abbot | 246 | 126 | 29 |
Plymouth | 384 | 193 | 55 |
Poole | 441 | 249 | 49 |
Salisbury | 46 | 10 | 10 |
Southampton | 606 | 401 | 40 |
Swindon | 320 | 218 | 23 |
Taunton | 239 | 134 | 24 |
Truro | 255 | 68 | 59 |
Worle | 131 | 62 | 12 |
Wales | 4181 | 2180 | 514 |
Aberystwyth | 49 | 24 | 6 |
Caernarfon | 101 | 23 | 15 |
Cardiff | 1746 | 949 | 250 |
Carmarthen | 72 | 15 | 19 |
Haverfordwest | 105 | 39 | 16 |
Langstone, Newport | 793 | 459 | 76 |
Llandrindod Wells | 32 | 16 | 8 |
Llangefni | 199 | 121 | 18 |
Port Talbot | 305 | 112 | 35 |
Prestatyn | 277 | 170 | 13 |
Swansea | 194 | 75 | 25 |
Welshpool | 52 | 31 | 8 |
Wrexham | 256 | 146 | 25 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 10 | 4 | 0 |
National | 48623 | 27241 | 6558 |
Disability Living Allowance at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 592 | 426 | 73 |
East London | 149 | 114 | 22 |
Enfield | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Fox Court | 264 | 180 | 36 |
Hatton Cross | 20 | 14 | 3 |
Romford | 54 | 41 | 4 |
Sutton | 103 | 75 | 8 |
Midlands | 597 | 394 | 91 |
Birmingham | 164 | 84 | 39 |
Boston | 10 | 9 | 0 |
Chesterfield | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Coventry | 46 | 35 | 4 |
Derby | 40 | 32 | 5 |
Hereford | 7 | 5 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 11 | 8 | 1 |
Leicester | 43 | 32 | 8 |
Lincoln | 36 | 25 | 1 |
Northampton | 26 | 19 | 4 |
Nottingham | 63 | 41 | 10 |
Nuneaton | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 20 | 15 | 3 |
Stoke | 30 | 23 | 4 |
Walsall | 19 | 10 | 1 |
Wellingborough | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 34 | 17 | 8 |
Worcester | 8 | 7 | 0 |
North East | 489 | 326 | 68 |
Barnsley | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Bedlington | 9 | 7 | 0 |
Bradford | 54 | 36 | 8 |
Darlington | 29 | 20 | 4 |
Doncaster | 14 | 5 | 2 |
Durham | 20 | 15 | 4 |
Gateshead | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Grimsby | 12 | 5 | 4 |
Huddersfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Hull | 23 | 16 | 5 |
Leeds | 30 | 8 | 12 |
Newcastle | 16 | 7 | 5 |
North Shields | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Scarborough | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Sheffield | 71 | 52 | 3 |
South Shields | 19 | 11 | 4 |
Sunderland | 40 | 29 | 3 |
Teesside | 67 | 61 | 1 |
Wakefield | 47 | 32 | 6 |
York | 7 | 4 | 2 |
North West | 535 | 372 | 87 |
Barrow | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Birkenhead | 32 | 19 | 7 |
Blackburn | 26 | 17 | 6 |
Blackpool | 19 | 10 | 2 |
Bolton | 30 | 20 | 5 |
Burnley | 14 | 11 | 2 |
Carlisle | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Chester | 20 | 14 | 4 |
Lancaster | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Liverpool | 70 | 45 | 12 |
Manchester | 113 | 89 | 14 |
Preston | 14 | 9 | 2 |
Rochdale | 40 | 25 | 10 |
St Helens | 42 | 27 | 9 |
Stockport | 60 | 49 | 4 |
Wigan | 31 | 21 | 6 |
Workington | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Scotland | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Ayr | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Dundee | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Glasgow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Inverness | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 1 | 1 | 0 |
South East | 555 | 427 | 52 |
Ashford | 33 | 24 | 3 |
Basildon | 25 | 15 | 5 |
Bedford | 20 | 16 | 1 |
Brighton | 46 | 36 | 2 |
Cambridge | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Chatham | 47 | 41 | 4 |
Chelmsford | 38 | 28 | 4 |
Eastbourne | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Hastings | 13 | 10 | 1 |
High Wycombe | 27 | 18 | 5 |
Ipswich | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Kings Lynn | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Luton | 27 | 26 | 0 |
Margate | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Milton Keynes | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Norwich | 46 | 37 | 3 |
Oxford | 23 | 18 | 1 |
Peterborough | 19 | 14 | 3 |
Reading | 26 | 23 | 0 |
Southend | 8 | 4 | 3 |
Stevenage | 12 | 8 | 1 |
Watford | 60 | 47 | 2 |
South West | 394 | 266 | 45 |
Unallocated 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Aldershot | 26 | 20 | 2 |
Barnstaple | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Bristol | 79 | 52 | 9 |
Exeter | 13 | 4 | 3 |
Gloucester | 27 | 15 | 4 |
Havant | 48 | 33 | 6 |
Newport IOW | 13 | 11 | 1 |
Newton Abbot | 12 | 8 | 0 |
Plymouth | 21 | 15 | 2 |
Poole | 30 | 23 | 2 |
Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Southampton | 36 | 26 | 5 |
Swindon | 24 | 19 | 2 |
Taunton | 21 | 17 | 2 |
Truro | 16 | 9 | 4 |
Worle | 12 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 247 | 148 | 35 |
Aberystwyth | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Caernarfon | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Cardiff | 115 | 61 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Haverfordwest | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Langstone, Newport | 45 | 33 | 3 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 13 | 10 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 15 | 9 | 2 |
Prestatyn | 16 | 13 | 0 |
Swansea | 9 | 3 | 4 |
Welshpool | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wrexham | 21 | 14 | 1 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 1 | 0 | 0 |
National | 3418 | 2361 | 454 |
Employment and Support Allowance4 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 380 | 158 | 28 |
East London | 116 | 59 | 4 |
Enfield | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Fox Court | 149 | 47 | 17 |
Hatton Cross | 19 | 8 | 3 |
Romford | 24 | 12 | 2 |
Sutton | 70 | 32 | 2 |
Midlands | 667 | 351 | 88 |
Birmingham | 112 | 57 | 19 |
Boston | 21 | 11 | 1 |
Chesterfield | 33 | 14 | 7 |
Coventry | 48 | 29 | 5 |
Derby | 48 | 26 | 6 |
Hereford | 9 | 4 | 2 |
Kidderminster | 13 | 8 | 2 |
Leicester | 69 | 44 | 7 |
Lincoln | 17 | 8 | 1 |
Northampton | 32 | 14 | 4 |
Nottingham | 65 | 31 | 12 |
Nuneaton | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 38 | 21 | 7 |
Stoke | 49 | 29 | 0 |
Walsall | 25 | 13 | 4 |
Wellingborough | 11 | 6 | 1 |
Wolverhampton | 56 | 25 | 8 |
Worcester | 14 | 9 | 2 |
North East | 468 | 188 | 62 |
Barnsley | 18 | 7 | 5 |
Bedlington | 14 | 2 | 3 |
Bradford | 41 | 17 | 3 |
Darlington | 23 | 8 | 2 |
Doncaster | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Durham | 22 | 8 | 4 |
Gateshead | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Grimsby | 19 | 7 | 2 |
Hull | 20 | 15 | 0 |
Leeds | 20 | 7 | 1 |
Newcastle | 25 | 9 | 3 |
North Shields | 19 | 3 | 5 |
Scarborough | 12 | 4 | 4 |
Sheffield | 40 | 15 | 6 |
South Shields | 27 | 8 | 1 |
Sunderland | 38 | 20 | 3 |
Teesside | 49 | 25 | 6 |
Wakefield | 42 | 18 | 7 |
York | 17 | 7 | 5 |
North West | 323 | 82 | 72 |
Barrow | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Blackburn | 13 | 3 | 3 |
Blackpool | 13 | 1 | 4 |
Bolton | 21 | 6 | 4 |
Burnley | 7 | 0 | 3 |
Carlisle | 9 | 1 | 1 |
Chester | 25 | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Liverpool | 38 | 16 | 7 |
Manchester | 50 | 15 | 12 |
Preston | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Rochdale | 28 | 6 | 5 |
St Helens | 21 | 1 | 2 |
Stockport | 40 | 17 | 9 |
Wigan | 24 | 4 | 9 |
Workington | 9 | 1 | 3 |
Scotland | 214 | 20 | 70 |
Aberdeen | 13 | 0 | 3 |
Ayr | 17 | 1 | 6 |
Campbeltown Centre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 9 | 0 | 7 |
Dundee | 12 | 0 | 3 |
Dunfermline | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh | 27 | 1 | 15 |
Galashiels | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Glasgow | 50 | 6 | 18 |
Greenock | 12 | 3 | 0 |
Hamilton | 19 | 3 | 3 |
Inverness | 14 | 0 | 6 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Kirkcaldy | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Lerwick | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling | 17 | 2 | 4 |
South East | 420 | 209 | 48 |
Ashford | 20 | 10 | 1 |
Basildon | 16 | 7 | 2 |
Bedford | 13 | 7 | 1 |
Brighton | 39 | 20 | 6 |
Cambridge | 11 | 5 | 1 |
Chatham | 16 | 8 | 3 |
Chelmsford | 37 | 18 | 3 |
Eastbourne | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Hastings | 9 | 3 | 4 |
High Wycombe | 19 | 8 | 1 |
Ipswich | 25 | 14 | 1 |
Kings Lynn | 15 | 7 | 3 |
Luton | 22 | 13 | 1 |
Margate | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Milton Keynes | 9 | 5 | 1 |
Norwich | 36 | 17 | 5 |
Oxford | 21 | 13 | 3 |
Peterborough | 32 | 12 | 3 |
Reading | 34 | 19 | 4 |
Southend | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Stevenage | 9 | 6 | 1 |
Watford | 29 | 12 | 4 |
South West | 490 | 295 | 15 |
Unallocated 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Aldershot | 31 | 24 | 0 |
Barnstaple | 6 | 4 | 0 |
Bristol | 80 | 42 | 4 |
Exeter | 12 | 5 | 1 |
Gloucester | 35 | 21 | 0 |
Havant | 65 | 43 | 1 |
Newport IOW | 27 | 21 | 2 |
Newton Abbot | 26 | 15 | 0 |
Plymouth | 31 | 19 | 0 |
Poole | 32 | 25 | 1 |
Salisbury | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Southampton | 49 | 26 | 1 |
Swindon | 17 | 8 | 2 |
Taunton | 22 | 12 | 0 |
Truro | 21 | 12 | 0 |
Worle | 15 | 7 | 0 |
Wales | 434 | 278 | 13 |
Aberystwyth | 10 | 5 | 3 |
Caernarfon | 10 | 6 | 1 |
Cardiff | 155 | 108 | 3 |
Carmarthen | 10 | 6 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 13 | 8 | 0 |
Langstone, Newport | 88 | 55 | 1 |
Llandrindod Wells | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Llangefni | 23 | 15 | 0 |
Port Talbot | 37 | 26 | 0 |
Prestatyn | 24 | 14 | 2 |
Swansea | 27 | 11 | 0 |
Welshpool | 13 | 6 | 3 |
Wrexham | 23 | 17 | 0 |
SSCS Regional Centre Not Known | 3 | 0 | 2 |
National | 3399 | 1581 | 398 |
Universal Credit5 at December 232 | |||
Region / Venue | Total Open Caseload | Ready To List | Listed For Hearing |
London | 2659 | 1361 | 215 |
East London | 566 | 294 | 57 |
Enfield | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Fox Court | 1468 | 754 | 94 |
Hatton Cross | 102 | 40 | 13 |
Romford | 169 | 85 | 34 |
Sutton | 346 | 186 | 16 |
Midlands | 2602 | 1489 | 406 |
Birmingham | 713 | 381 | 142 |
Boston | 51 | 34 | 7 |
Chesterfield | 62 | 34 | 11 |
Coventry | 202 | 125 | 14 |
Derby | 159 | 87 | 31 |
Hereford | 21 | 16 | 0 |
Kidderminster | 20 | 15 | 2 |
Leicester | 265 | 160 | 29 |
Lincoln | 123 | 74 | 19 |
Northampton | 126 | 82 | 16 |
Nottingham | 253 | 148 | 50 |
Nuneaton | 11 | 7 | 0 |
Shrewsbury | 78 | 45 | 7 |
Stoke | 99 | 55 | 9 |
Walsall | 116 | 64 | 15 |
Wellingborough | 43 | 29 | 6 |
Wolverhampton | 218 | 109 | 44 |
Worcester | 42 | 24 | 4 |
North East | 2007 | 1012 | 385 |
Barnsley | 55 | 26 | 13 |
Bedlington | 46 | 20 | 15 |
Berwick | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Bradford | 208 | 118 | 30 |
Darlington | 70 | 26 | 19 |
Doncaster | 84 | 31 | 18 |
Durham | 40 | 17 | 7 |
Gateshead | 24 | 11 | 10 |
Grimsby | 69 | 41 | 11 |
Huddersfield | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hull | 108 | 62 | 16 |
Leeds | 173 | 68 | 30 |
Newcastle | 229 | 109 | 48 |
North Shields | 45 | 16 | 9 |
Scarborough | 49 | 24 | 15 |
Sheffield | 160 | 67 | 40 |
South Shields | 71 | 40 | 13 |
Sunderland | 124 | 79 | 12 |
Teesside | 227 | 137 | 37 |
Wakefield | 170 | 88 | 32 |
York | 47 | 29 | 10 |
North West | 1512 | 572 | 308 |
Barrow | 12 | 6 | 1 |
Birkenhead | 34 | 15 | 5 |
Blackburn | 33 | 15 | 2 |
Blackpool | 54 | 13 | 10 |
Bolton | 107 | 32 | 24 |
Burnley | 65 | 29 | 8 |
Carlisle | 29 | 14 | 4 |
Chester | 61 | 17 | 6 |
Lancaster | 27 | 13 | 3 |
Liverpool | 179 | 49 | 34 |
Manchester | 467 | 226 | 112 |
Preston | 35 | 7 | 8 |
Rochdale | 91 | 23 | 17 |
St Helens | 79 | 34 | 13 |
Stockport | 141 | 45 | 43 |
Wigan | 85 | 29 | 17 |
Workington | 13 | 5 | 1 |
Scotland | 658 | 187 | 219 |
Aberdeen | 33 | 8 | 15 |
Ayr | 40 | 12 | 13 |
Dumfries (Cairndale) | 13 | 1 | 5 |
Dundee | 44 | 10 | 13 |
Dunfermline | 14 | 3 | 2 |
Edinburgh | 120 | 31 | 40 |
Galashiels | 14 | 6 | 3 |
Glasgow | 206 | 64 | 71 |
Greenock | 25 | 6 | 10 |
Hamilton | 59 | 17 | 19 |
Inverness | 22 | 3 | 9 |
Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkcaldy | 22 | 9 | 4 |
Kirkwall | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lerwick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lewis | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Oban | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Stirling | 29 | 13 | 9 |
Stranraer | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Wick | 4 | 1 | 1 |
South East | 2002 | 1053 | 321 |
Ashford | 117 | 47 | 28 |
Basildon | 70 | 24 | 19 |
Bedford | 48 | 30 | 6 |
Brighton | 173 | 76 | 35 |
Cambridge | 68 | 33 | 11 |
Chatham | 70 | 27 | 21 |
Chelmsford | 107 | 62 | 11 |
Eastbourne | 26 | 15 | 3 |
Hastings | 43 | 27 | 8 |
High Wycombe | 125 | 70 | 14 |
Ipswich | 89 | 54 | 8 |
Kings Lynn | 36 | 18 | 12 |
Luton | 110 | 65 | 16 |
Margate | 39 | 18 | 8 |
Milton Keynes | 48 | 27 | 6 |
Norwich | 145 | 86 | 22 |
Oxford | 111 | 66 | 13 |
Peterborough | 91 | 45 | 14 |
Reading | 141 | 73 | 21 |
Southend | 65 | 37 | 16 |
Stevenage | 45 | 27 | 2 |
Watford | 235 | 126 | 27 |
South West | 1744 | 1121 | 65 |
Unallocated 3 | 43 | 26 | 2 |
Aldershot | 120 | 74 | 5 |
Barnstaple | 24 | 15 | 0 |
Bristol | 342 | 219 | 11 |
Exeter | 59 | 32 | 0 |
Gloucester | 136 | 99 | 7 |
Havant | 187 | 133 | 5 |
Newport IOW | 49 | 35 | 4 |
Newton Abbot | 61 | 34 | 4 |
Plymouth | 84 | 52 | 0 |
Poole | 159 | 96 | 9 |
Salisbury | 15 | 6 | 1 |
Southampton | 162 | 106 | 5 |
Swindon | 108 | 71 | 5 |
Taunton | 71 | 42 | 0 |
Truro | 87 | 58 | 3 |
Worle | 37 | 23 | 4 |
Wales | 1019 | 712 | 62 |
Aberystwyth | 16 | 8 | 1 |
Caernarfon | 53 | 32 | 6 |
Cardiff | 389 | 277 | 18 |
Carmarthen | 20 | 14 | 0 |
Haverfordwest | 28 | 19 | 1 |
Langstone, Newport | 179 | 133 | 9 |
Llandrindod Wells | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Llangefni | 27 | 20 | 1 |
Port Talbot | 91 | 68 | 3 |
Prestatyn | 74 | 46 | 9 |
Swansea | 58 | 43 | 3 |
Welshpool | 14 | 8 | 3 |
Wrexham | 67 | 41 | 8 |
National | 14203 | 7507 | 1981 |
From April 2023 the SSCS Tribunal started to list cases using a new Scheduling and Listing solution. This, alongside HMCTS migrating to a new Strategic Data Platform, has resulted in some cases heard and decided using this new listing solution not currently being included in the data above.
1. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Clams (Reassessments)
2. Data pulled 23/4/2024
3. Unallocated relates to appeals that have not yet been allocated to a venue.
4. Data includes Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit reassessment. Employment and Support Allowance was introduced in October 2008 and Incapacity Benefit reassessment followed in October 2010.
5. Universal Credit was introduced on 29 April 2013 in selected areas of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and has been gradually rolled out to the rest of the UK from October 2013.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Management information reflects the data held on the case management system, which is subject to change, and can differ from the quality-assured MOJ official statistics, which form the agreed definitive position.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
HM Prison and Probation Service is using existing resources to deliver the requirements of the IPP Action Plan, ensuring that it is used to best effect to support those serving IPP sentences to achieve their sentence plan objectives and reduce their risks. HMPPS does not allocate funding in such a way as it would be possible to disaggregate specific amounts dedicated to sentence planning, offender management and support for IPP offenders.
Unto that end, the Action Plan focuses on ensuring offenders can access the required services or interventions in order to take positive steps towards a future release, a sustainable life in the community and, ultimately, the end of their sentence altogether. Further, when it comes to those serving the IPP sentence in prison, the Action Plan requires that they have an up to date sentence plan and are held in a prison which provides the intervention(s) specified in the sentence plan. It is expected that the latest IPP Annual Report and Action Plan will be published in mid-May.
We have taken significant action through the Victims and Prisoners Bill to curtail IPP licence periods to give offenders the opportunity to move on with their lives. In addition to these changes, the actions this Government is taking are working; the number of prisoners serving the IPP sentence who have never been released now stands at 1,180 as of 31 March 2024, down from more than 6,000 in 2012.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We continue to focus on the prison capacity challenge.
To meet rising demand, we are building c.20,000 modern, rehabilitative prison places – the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through our two new 1,700 places prisons, HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, and c.590 Rapid Deployment Cells across 11 sites. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total.
On 11 March, I announced the next steps in our plan, to allow us to go further and faster in removing FNOs. This includes expediting prisoner transfers with our priority partners such as Albania and the creation of a new taskforce across the HO and MoJ to change the way we process FNO cases radically.
We have also put in place short-term measures across the prison estate to expand useable capacity, while ensuring our prisons remain safe for staff and offenders.
The Government will continue to monitor the evolving situation with demand for prison places carefully, so that we can make sure we have the right approaches in place to maintain the capacity required for a safe and effective criminal justice system.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Education is key for reducing reoffending and research indicates that prison education reduces reoffending by 9 percentage points. In September 2023, we set out our plans to deliver an improved Prison Education Service that will support more prisoners to improve their literacy and numeracy and increase the number of prison leavers employed on release.
Over the past 12 months we have seen a sustained delivery in the number vocational courses undertaken by prisoners following increases to 95,000. To ensure the right education and vocational training opportunities are available across prisons we have:
- Introduced new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.
- Enabled the first ever prisoner apprenticeships in catering and construction through ground-breaking partnerships with Greene King, Kier and Clipper, with talks underway to open up apprenticeships in other industries.
- Recruited Neurodiversity Support Managers in every prison to support offenders with neurodivergent needs in accessing education, skills and work opportunities within the prison.
- Launched a Future Skills programme to train up over 2,000 offenders over the next two years in vital industries such as scaffolding and electrics, before linking them up with employers in the local community and guaranteeing interviews on release.
- We are investing £16 million to test new ways of increasing workshop activity to get prisoners work-ready and improve labour supply.
- £1.8 million in the Literacy Innovation Fund which is delivering pilots in 15 prisons targeting those with low literacy levels.
I am pleased to say that we have seen positive outcomes in employment in support of our work to make best use of prison capacity. The proportion of prison leavers in employment six months after release has more than doubled in the two years to March 2023, from 14% to over 30%and between 2011/12 and 2021/22, the overall proven reoffending rate has decreased from 31.3% to 25.2%.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
On 28 March, following a Maundy Thursday service and meal in the prison chapel at HMP Lewes, two people who were present collapsed and were taken to hospital. After others who had attended the service also reported feeling unwell, the 32 prisoners and six staff who had attended were checked by paramedics. In total, six people required hospital treatment. The police are conducting an investigation into the incident. His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service is continuing to engage with them and to obtain regular updates on the investigation.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Operation Tornado is a national mutual aid plan by which prisons support one another in the event of a serious incident or occurrence requiring a reinforcement of staff. Operation Tornado is employed by HMPPS for three main reasons:
- In response to a serious incident requiring a reinforcement of staff.
- In response to other events or crisis requiring additional staff, who may not necessarily need to be Tornado trained.
- To aid the transfer of prisoners in the event of a serious incident or the threat of one (with the GOLD commander’s agreement).
HMPPS aims to have 2,100 volunteers trained in readiness for Operation Tornado. Since the inception of Operation Tornado in the late 1980s, HMPPS has allocated a commitment to each prison for how many Tornado staff they should have trained. HMPPS monitors the number of staff available for deployment and offer training spaces to ensure resilience to respond to serious incidents.
In the event of a serious incident, all prisons, including those who have a commitment of zero, receive the same level of support from the Operation Response and Resilience Unit and Tornado trained staff from other prisons if required.
The requested information is in the table attached.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Custody should always be a last resort for children, including on remand. The Government raised the legal test for remanding a child to custody in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. A child must have committed a violent or sexual offence or have been charged with an offence where an adult may receive a custodial sentence of 14 years, and the court must consider it very likely that the child will receive a custodial sentence.
Any person under the age of 18 will not be remanded in an adult prison. Instead, they are remanded into Young Offender Institutions (YOIs), a Secure Training Centre (STC), or Secure Children’s Homes (SCHs). Specific placement decisions for custodial remands are made by the Youth Custody Service (YCS), factoring in the needs of the child.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
There is currently one super-injunction in force which was made in the Kings Bench Division of the High Court.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The number and proportion of successful cases referred by the CCRC and heard by appeal courts each year since 2019/20 is:
| Number of successful referrals | Proportion of successful referrals |
2019/20 | 10 | 58.8% |
2020/21 | 30 | 88% |
2021/22 | 57 | 88% |
2022/23 | 17 | 89% |
2023/24 | 19 | 79% |
2024/25 (year to date) | 2 | 100% |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
Where the normal time limit for appeals through the courts has passed and where an individual believes they have been wrongly convicted of a crime in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, including in historic cases, they can apply to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) which is an independent public body funded by the Ministry of Justice. The CCRC can investigate and where it considers that there is a real possibility that the conviction would not be upheld were the reference to be made, can refer cases back to the courts.
There is no time limit on any application and the service is free.
To ensure that the appeals system is working effectively, the Government has asked the Law Commission to conduct an independent and wide-ranging Review of the appeals system. The Review will consider the issues raised by the Westminster Commission (2021) on miscarriages of justice, which includes the tests used by the CCRC and the Court of Appeal, and the government will then consider the review’s findings, and any recommendations for change in the law, very carefully.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
A redacted copy of Annex F – Deliverables will be uploaded to Contracts Finder within the next 10 days.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The data held centrally by the Ministry of Justice on ineffective trials does not specifically identify those that have been postponed within 24 hours' notice. This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.
The Government is committed to improving the Criminal Justice System’s response to adult rape. This includes the significant progress we have made in delivering our Rape Review Action Plan. Within this plan, we set ourselves stretching ambitions to return the volumes of police referrals to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), CPS charges and Crown Court receipts for adult rape to 2016 levels. In practice, this means more than doubling the number of cases reaching court since the Rape Review was commissioned in 2019. We are pleased to say we have already exceeded these ambitions.
We also recognise that lengthy waiting times can be particularly difficult for victims of rape and other serious sexual offences who wish to see justice done and move on with their lives. The Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales has recently announced that all rape cases outstanding for more than two years will be listed by the end of July 2024, providing certainty to those victims that their cases will be prioritised and heard as soon as possible.
Alongside the SPJ’s efforts, we continue to make sure we do more than ever to improve timeliness at court. This includes delivering over 107,000 additional sitting days in Crown Courts; opening two permanent ‘super courtrooms’ in Manchester and Loughborough; increasing criminal legal aid spending by £141 million per year; investing over £220 million for essential modernisation and repair work of court buildings (up to March 2025); and investing further in judicial recruitment and retention.
We know that support services play a critical role in supporting victims including those engaging with the Criminal Justice System. This is why we are quadrupling funding for victims and witness support services by 2024/25, up from £41 million in 2009/10. The funding will allow us to increase the number of Independent Sexual and Domestic Violence Advisors to around 1,000 by 2025.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Restraining orders play an important role in ensuring that victims are appropriately protected, and feel safer, particularly within the context of repeated and/or escalating behaviour that disproportionately impacts women and girls, such as domestic abuse.
They are one of several existing protective orders that can be used in cases of domestic abuse to protect a victim, such as Non-Molestation Orders, Stalking Protection Orders, and Domestic Violence Protection Orders.
Abusers who breach restraining orders face tough penalties including jail time. Where a restraining order is breached, CPS guidance encourages prosecutors to consider whether a new course of conduct is present and, if so, to ensure that it is prosecuted in addition to the breach in question.
Safeguarding victims of all crimes, and particularly from those such as domestic abuse is a priority for this Government. That is why we are going further to protect victims of domestic abuse by piloting a new Domestic Abuse Protection Order from Spring 2024 which will give courts the power to impose exclusion zones, curfews, and electronic monitoring tags on abusers. The order will be independently evaluated to understand its effectiveness in protecting all victims.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
HMCTS had the following number of sessions recorded as either available or unavailable since 2015:
Period | Available verified sessions | Unavailable verified sessions |
FY 15-16 | 1,552,490 | 42,692 |
FY 16-17 | 1,512,424 | 36,811 |
FY 17-18 | 1,387,270 | 37,598 |
FY 18-19 | 1,347,648 | 36,507 |
FY 19-20 | 1,302,006 | 38,408 |
FY 20-21 | 1,062,856 | 130,071 |
FY 21-22 | 1,277,033 | 86,511 |
FY 22-23 | 1,277,981 | 42,665 |
FY 23-24 | 1,281,838 | 48,201 |
A ‘session’ represents the time that court/hearing room space is available, with up to two sessions available each day. Available and unavailable sessions are recorded for all jurisdictions.
HMCTS record a session being unavailable for a number of reasons, including important alternative uses. For example:
- box work
- case-related unavailability
- commercial use (e.g., filming)
- community engagement
- where the room is connected to chambers which are in use
- court closures due to severe weather or security incidents, holidays (not public holiday) or formerly due to COVID
- external meetings (e.g., Court User Group)
- use for external organisations (e.g., Coroner)
- Judges office, meeting space, mentoring and/or reading time
- maintenance work
- mediation (parties present)
- overspill (in support of a hearing taking place elsewhere)
- room closed due to COVID outbreak
- staff meetings and/or training
- video link being used for other matter
HMCTS’ Courtroom Planner performance database was introduced in April 2015 to collect information on the availability of courtrooms. The data was suspended in April 2020 due to COVID disruption and resumed in September 2020. The data between April and August 2020 is therefore incomplete.
The amount of time we use our available estate for hearings is also connected to the funded number of sitting days in any one year, and the availability of key participants such as judiciary and legal professionals.
To maintain session levels, we are investing £220m in the two years to March 2025 for essential maintenance and repair work across the estate to ensure we are keeping as many courtrooms open as possible to hear more cases. This two-year capital maintenance allocation enables us to plan major estate projects in advance and with certainty. Maintenance funding is prioritised to sites that need it most, and this investment is a step forward in improving the quality of the court estate. We have a planned pipeline of future works to improve the resilience and quality of the court estate, and this is kept under regular review.
We have also introduced additional measures to speed up justice for victims and improve the justice system, including:
o Extending 20 Nightingale courtrooms beyond March 2024 to provide additional capacity in the court estate.
o Investing in judicial recruitment since 2017 which has resulted in the annual recruitment of approximately 1000 judges and tribunal members across all jurisdictions. In particular, this has led to an overall increase in the number of judges in the Crown Court.
Please note all data provided is internal and subject to data quality issues inherent in any large-scale manual system.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Year | Average days from sentence to start of Community Payback | Number of offenders who did not complete their first session of Community Payback | Total caseload |
2021 | 87 | 8,830 | 44,108 |
2022 | 63 | 7,822 | 47,421 |
2023 | 37 | 6,604 | 48,058 |
The dataset includes all offenders starting an order with a community payback requirement between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023. The start of the community payback requirement has been defined as either the first attended session of group work, or an individual placement, or the completion of Employment, Training and Education work.
There are a variety of reason why a person hasn't completed their first community payback session. These include receiving a custodial sentence or remanded into custody, recall to prison, a warrant for their arrest, deportation, suitability of sentence and non -compliance. For issues of suitability or non-compliance requirements are returned to court for appropriate action to be taken.
People whose first community payback session took place over a year from their order start date have been excluded from the average days calculation as additional court work would need to be completed to ensure that the first session was worked within a lawful period.
People who have not completed a first work session have also been excluded from the average day calculation, along with those where a first work session has been recorded after the community payback requirement was terminated.
The 2023 figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.
Centrally collected data are only available from 2021.
Between 2021 and 2023, a total of 23,256 offenders did not complete their first session of community payback.
This figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.
Data as at 15 April 2024. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Year | Average days from sentence to start of Community Payback | Number of offenders who did not complete their first session of Community Payback | Total caseload |
2021 | 87 | 8,830 | 44,108 |
2022 | 63 | 7,822 | 47,421 |
2023 | 37 | 6,604 | 48,058 |
The dataset includes all offenders starting an order with a community payback requirement between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023. The start of the community payback requirement has been defined as either the first attended session of group work, or an individual placement, or the completion of Employment, Training and Education work.
There are a variety of reason why a person hasn't completed their first community payback session. These include receiving a custodial sentence or remanded into custody, recall to prison, a warrant for their arrest, deportation, suitability of sentence and non -compliance. For issues of suitability or non-compliance requirements are returned to court for appropriate action to be taken.
People whose first community payback session took place over a year from their order start date have been excluded from the average days calculation as additional court work would need to be completed to ensure that the first session was worked within a lawful period.
People who have not completed a first work session have also been excluded from the average day calculation, along with those where a first work session has been recorded after the community payback requirement was terminated.
The 2023 figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.
Centrally collected data are only available from 2021.
Between 2021 and 2023, a total of 23,256 offenders did not complete their first session of community payback.
This figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.
Data as at 15 April 2024. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Public protection is our priority. The decision to recall on offender on licensed supervision is taken on the professional advice of senior probation staff following consideration of safe alternatives to recall. Where offenders are recalled, it is because they present a risk of serious harm to the public and the controls available are no longer sufficient to keep the public safe. These individuals will remain in prison for only as long as necessary to protect the public.
Reasons for recall are recorded and published as set out in the table below. Further breakdown of recall reasons is not possible without significant manual checks.
Recall period | Oct-Dec 2022 | Jan-Mar 2023* | Apr-Jun 2023 | Jul-Sep 2023 | % Proportion |
Total Recalls | 6,092 | 6,824 | 6,814 | 7,030 |
|
Facing further charge | 1,821 | 1,977 | 1,883 | 1,815 | 28 |
Non-compliance | 4,378 | 5,047 | 5,038 | 5,376 | 74 |
Failed to keep in touch | 1,960 | 2,140 | 2,110 | 2,286 | 32 |
Failed to reside | 1,613 | 1,792 | 1,810 | 1,920 | 27 |
Drugs/alcohol | 413 | 437 | 489 | 577 | 7 |
Poor Behaviour - Relationships | 205 | 214 | 212 | 224 | 3 |
HDC - Time violation | 124 | 131 | 171 | 151 | 2 |
HDC - Inability to monitor | 65 | 75 | 71 | 81 | 1 |
Failed home visit | 89 | 78 | 73 | 86 | 1 |
HDC - Failed installation | 37 | 29 | 30 | 51 | 1 |
HDC - Equipment Tamper | 9 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 0 |
Other | 1,091 | 1,299 | 1,304 | 1,296 | 19 |
* Figures for Jan-Mar 2023 have been revised since last publication.
The table includes instances of offenders recalled multiple times.
Recall reasons do not sum to the total number of recalls published, as more than one reason can be recorded against each recall.
We routinely publish recall data at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The supervision requirement was phased out with the introduction of Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014, therefore we have used the Rehabilitation Activity Requirement as the data source in this response as the best match to Supervision.
Between 01/04/2022 and 31/03/2023, the last full year for which data is available, breaches were initiated one or more times for 39,617 individuals with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement as part of their Community Sentence.
During this period, the typical number of persons with an active Rehabilitation Activity Requirement was 84,608. As the caseload will vary, with a vast number of sentences commencing and ending on a daily basis, it is not possible to provide a figure for the proportion of those with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, with a breach recorded.
It should be noted that a breach being initiated does not necessarily mean that a breach was heard at court, or resulted in a Court hearing, they may instead have been withdrawn due to renewed compliance, at the Probation Practitioner’s professional judgement. Breaches are undertaken for a number of reasons, including non-attendance, unacceptable behaviour and commission of further offences.
Data are as at 16/04/2024. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is committed to preventing homelessness and works closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and the Welsh Government to do so. Prisons and probation have a statutory duty to refer someone at risk of homelessness to a local authority for assistance, and we have worked closely with DLUHC on the design and delivery of their Accommodation for Ex-Offenders scheme. We have set up a Cross-Whitehall Accommodation Board, attended by officials from MoJ, HMPPS, Welsh Government and DLUHC, to ensure collaboration across policy and operational areas. In the year to March 2023, 86% of prison leavers were in accommodation on their first night of release from custody (excluding cases where the status was unknown). This is up from 80% in 2019-20, the year immediately before our accommodation investments began.
In July 2021, we launched our groundbreaking Community Accommodation Service Tier-3 in five probation regions, to guarantee up to 12-weeks temporary accommodation to prison leavers subject to probation supervision who are at risk of homelessness on release, including those released under the End of Custody Supervised Licence measure. From April 2023, the service was expanded across all probation regions in England and Wales and continues to bring new beds online as the service embeds. By January 2023, the proportion of offenders housed on the first night of their release from custody was 7.6 percentage points higher in CAS3 regions versus non-CAS3 regions.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is committed to preventing homelessness and works closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and the Welsh Government to do so. Prisons and probation have a statutory duty to refer someone at risk of homelessness to a local authority for assistance, and we have worked closely with DLUHC on the design and delivery of their Accommodation for Ex-Offenders scheme. We have set up a Cross-Whitehall Accommodation Board, attended by officials from MoJ, HMPPS, Welsh Government and DLUHC, to ensure collaboration across policy and operational areas. In the year to March 2023, 86% of prison leavers were in accommodation on their first night of release from custody (excluding cases where the status was unknown). This is up from 80% in 2019-20, the year immediately before our accommodation investments began.
In July 2021, we launched our groundbreaking Community Accommodation Service Tier-3 in five probation regions, to guarantee up to 12-weeks temporary accommodation to prison leavers subject to probation supervision who are at risk of homelessness on release, including those released under the End of Custody Supervised Licence measure. From April 2023, the service was expanded across all probation regions in England and Wales and continues to bring new beds online as the service embeds. By January 2023, the proportion of offenders housed on the first night of their release from custody was 7.6 percentage points higher in CAS3 regions versus non-CAS3 regions.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
HMPPS Community Accommodation Service (CAS) provides transitional accommodation via three tiers of support, each focused on a different cohort. CAS3 was launched in July 2021, providing up to 12 weeks’ guaranteed accommodation on release for those leaving prison at risk of homelessness, with support to move on to settled accommodation. Initially implemented in five probation regions (Yorkshire and the Humber; North West; Greater Manchester; East of England; and Kent, Surrey and Sussex), the service was rolled out to Wales in June 2022. From April 2023, the CAS3 service was operating in all probation regions in England and Wales. By January 2023, the proportion of offenders housed on the first night of their release from custody was 7.6 percentage points higher in CAS3 regions versus non-CAS3 regions.
We are undertaking an evaluation of the impact of CAS3 on offenders’ obtaining settled accommodation and employment, and on re-offending outcomes. The report is due to be published in the autumn.
The National Audit Office’s report “Improving resettlement support for prison leavers to reduce reoffending”, published in May 2023, looks at the impact of CAS3 on accommodation outcomes during the period up to February 2023. It can be accessed via the following link:
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
HMPPS Community Accommodation Service (CAS) provides transitional accommodation via three tiers of support, each focused on a different cohort. CAS3 was launched in July 2021, providing up to 12 weeks’ guaranteed accommodation on release for those leaving prison at risk of homelessness, with support to move on to settled accommodation. Initially implemented in five probation regions (Yorkshire and the Humber; North West; Greater Manchester; East of England; and Kent, Surrey and Sussex), the service was rolled out to Wales in June 2022. From April 2023, the CAS3 service was operating in all probation regions in England and Wales. By January 2023, the proportion of offenders housed on the first night of their release from custody was 7.6 percentage points higher in CAS3 regions versus non-CAS3 regions.
We are undertaking an evaluation of the impact of CAS3 on offenders’ obtaining settled accommodation and employment, and on re-offending outcomes. The report is due to be published in the autumn.
The National Audit Office’s report “Improving resettlement support for prison leavers to reduce reoffending”, published in May 2023, looks at the impact of CAS3 on accommodation outcomes during the period up to February 2023. It can be accessed via the following link:
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Additional income raised from court and tribunal fees will make a significant contribution to vital work taking place across the Department to facilitate an effective and efficient justice system. This includes our continuous efforts to improve HMCTS service performance and reduce court backlogs.
Fees generated £727 million in income for the Ministry of Justice in 2022/23 out of the total c.£2.3 billion that it cost to run HMCTS. The recent round of fee uplifts is expected to raise another £30 million – £37 million a year in additional income.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Information about appeal receipts in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is routinely published within Tribunals Statistics Quarterly in the main tables. The total number of receipts to the First-tier Tribunal is available in table FIA_1 and for the Upper Tribunal in UIA_1.
The proportion of appeals for the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal which were successful is also available as published data and can be found in tables FIA_3 and UIA_3 respectively.
The latest quarterly data includes figures to December 2023 and is available here: Tribunals statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data for the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) receipts, disposals and outcome figures is available up to Q1, April to June 2021. Data from Q2 2021/22 onwards have not been included in this publication as data was migrated to a new IT system and the data is not yet available.
Financial information is published for the IAC on an annual basis in the HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) Annual Report, within the fees and charges section. Published information relates to the expenditure and fee income of HMCTS and will not cover financial impacts on other public bodies. Fees and costs cannot be reliably attributed to a particular cohort of appeals. The most recent available data is for Financial Year 2022/23 and is published here HMCTS annual reports and plans - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Over financial year 2022/23, the Ministry of Justice’s communications team delivered highly cost-effective marketing campaigns to support operational and policy priorities, such as our Prison and Probation Service recruitment campaigns.
As requested, we have outlined the proportion of the marketing and advertising budget that was spent on advertising broken down in percentages. The categories vary slightly due to the way the data is collected. It is worth noting that due to 2023/24 accounts still being in reconciliation, we are unable to provide data for year 2023/24.
| Proportion |
Local Print (advertising) | 0.04% |
National Print (advertising) | 0.52% |
Online job sites (advertising) | 54.24% |
Online Media Search advertising | 15.69% |
Broadcast and on-demand television (advertising) | 0% |
Other | 13.58% |
Social media (advertising) | 15.94% |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We plan to publish all Early Legal Advice Pilot (ELAP) outputs in accordance with Government Social Research protocols very soon.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
A redacted version of Call-Off Schedule 20, which includes the specification, will be published within the next 30 days.
The supplier provides the requested search terms as part of the contract service, the search terms themselves are not specified in the contract or any contract documentation and will not be published.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We have interpreted your request as relating to ineffective trials, which is where the trial does not take place on the day as planned and requires rescheduling. Ineffective trials happen for a variety of reasons, such as the absence of a defendant or a witness or adjournment requests from either the prosecution or defence.
The tables attached set out the data held by the Ministry of Justice on ineffective trials broken down by offence type, in volume and as a proportion of the total listed trials for that offence type. Crown Court data is available from 2014 onwards.
The pandemic created a significant challenge for the Crown Court and affected its ability to effectively list trials. As a result, the ineffective trial rate notably increased in 2020, primarily due to increases in defendant illness or absence, and overlisting (55% of all ineffective trials were for these reasons combined).
Since 2022, the proportion of ineffective trials in the Crown Court for all offences increased significantly as a result of the Criminal Bar Assocation (CBA) action. While the ineffective trial rate reduced swiftly following the conclusion of the CBA action, in the most recent available data published by the MoJ (October-December 2023), the defence or prosecution not being ready was the largest reason for ineffective trials, accounting for 22% (450) of all ineffective trials.
Despite the overall increase in ineffective trials since the pandemic and subsequent CBA action, the latest data shows cases progressed through the Crown Court more quickly throughout 2023, with the median time from receipt to completion reducing from 167 days in the first quarter of 2023, to 125 days in the last quarter.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We have interpreted waiting time to refer to the time between the date of sending a case to the Crown Court and the start of the substantive Crown Court hearing.
The average waiting times of defendants dealt with in rape, murder, GBH and robbery trial cases where a not guilty plea was entered in the Crown Court can be found in the below table based on published annual data from 2014 to 2023. Data prior to 2014 is not available.
While the Crown Court is still recovering from the impact of the pandemic and disruptive action from the Bar, which reduced our ability to hear cases swiftly, the latest published statistics show that the median age of cases that are outstanding was around 6 months.
We are committed to ensuring the delivery of swift justice for all victims and have introduced a raft of measures to achieve that aim. This includes funding around 107,000 sitting days during the most recent financial year (FY23,24), recruiting up to 1,000 judges annually across all jurisdictions and investing in the continued use of 20 Nightingale courtrooms into this financial year (FY24/25) to allow the courts to work at full capacity.
Judges do prioritise cases involving vulnerable complainants and witnesses, and seek to ensure that domestic abuse, serious sexual offences and those with vulnerable witnesses are listed at the first available opportunity. The Senior Presiding Judge has also recently announced that all rape cases outstanding for more than two years at court will be listed by the end of July 2024.
Average waiting times (weeks) of defendants dealt with in rape, murder, GBH and robbery for-trial cases where a not guilty plea was entered in the Crown Court, annually, 2014 - 2023 | ||||||||
| Rape | Murder | GBH | Robbery | ||||
Year | Median | Mean | Median | Mean | Median | Mean | Median | Mean |
2014 | 27.6 | 29.5 | 25.0 | 26.3 | 26.6 | 30.1 | 23.9 | 24.5 |
2015 | 28.9 | 31.8 | 25.7 | 28.8 | 28.0 | 33.0 | 24.4 | 28.4 |
2016 | 28.0 | 30.9 | 24.3 | 23.1 | 25.9 | 33.4 | 24.0 | 27.3 |
2017 | 28.8 | 31.5 | 24.0 | 24.6 | 24.9 | 30.5 | 22.6 | 24.6 |
2018 | 29.6 | 32.9 | 23.7 | 23.7 | 24.7 | 28.9 | 22.6 | 23.4 |
2019 | 26.7 | 30.1 | 24.6 | 24.5 | 24.1 | 26.7 | 22.9 | 23.2 |
2020 | 30.6 | 32.5 | 25.5 | 28.9 | 27.0 | 31.4 | 25.4 | 27.8 |
2021 | 41.0 | 44.8 | 32.6 | 36.9 | 36.7 | 44.0 | 33.9 | 39.4 |
2022 | 39.7 | 44.4 | 33.0 | 36.6 | 35.9 | 46.7 | 32.4 | 43.1 |
2023 | 41.7 | 48.2 | 33.6 | 38.5 | 36.9 | 50.3 | 29.7 | 47.6 |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The quarterly HMPPS workforce statistics publication covers staffing information, and the latest publication covers data up to 31 December 2023. The average number of psychologists is given in table 1 below.
Table 1 - Average number of psychologists1 in HMPPS 2 for each calendar year from 2010 to 2023
(full-time equivalent)
Calendar Year |
| Total |
2010 |
| 568 |
2011 |
| 549 |
2012 |
| 522 |
2013 |
| 507 |
2014 |
| 507 |
2015 |
| 544 |
2016 |
| 615 |
2017 |
| 654 |
2018 |
| 698 |
2019 |
| 762 |
2020 |
| 798 |
2021 |
| 816 |
2022 |
| 874 |
2023 |
| 862 |
Notes
1. Only including staff in HMPPS bands 5 to 11 and will include trainee psychologists. Staff in groupworker or administrative roles in psychology at bands 3 and 4 are excluded.
2. Psychologists employed in the Probation Service are not included.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We will deliver continuous support for prison leavers during the transition from the CFO3 and CFO Activity Hubs programmes to the CFO Evolution programme by allowing adequate implementation and migration time as appropriate between the existing and new programmes. Information about the CFO programmes will be disseminated to prison leavers by the current and new providers and the HMPPS CFO team. Comprehensive mobilisation and transition plans are in place to ensure participants on the programme will notice little difference during this period.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL) is a temporary measure and is used in a targeted way where its use is only where it is absolutely necessary. For this reason, the list of prisons varies according to need.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL) is a temporary measure and is used in a targeted way where its use is only where it is absolutely necessary. For this reason, the list of prisons varies according to need.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Public protection is our priority. Offenders released early on ECSL are subject to a standard supervision licence which is designed to enable the Probation Service to manage the risk that offenders may pose on release from prison and to safeguard public protection. The recall process is the same for those released on ECSL and other standard releases.
The decision to recall an offender on licensed supervision is taken on the professional advice of senior probation staff following consideration of safe alternatives to recall. Where offenders are recalled, it is because they present a risk of serious harm to the public and the controls available are no longer sufficient to keep the public safe. These individuals will remain in prison for only as long as necessary to protect the public. Guidance on the recall of offenders to prison is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recall-review-and-re-release-of-recalled-prisoners.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the independent judiciary and, by law, courts are required to be satisfied that the offence committed is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified, and even when that threshold is met, courts are able to consider whether a community sentence would be more suitable in that particular case. In many cases, sentences served in the community can more effectively reduce reoffending when compared to short custodial sentences.
Data showing the number and proportion of prisoners sentenced to custodial sentences, who have previously had at least one community order or suspended sentence order respectively for each year since 2010, is drawn from the Police National Computer. This can be viewed in the table below.
Table showing the number and proportion of offender s(1), (2) sentenced to immediate custody(3) in each year since 2010(4), who previously(5) received at least one community order(6) or suspended sentence order respectively(7), prior to the immediate custodial sentence. England and Wales(8).
Year | Number of offenders who received at least one community order prior to an immediate custodial sentence | Proportion of offenders who received at least one community order prior to an immediate custodial sentence | Number of offenders who received at least one suspended sentence order prior to an immediate custodial sentence | Proportion of offenders who received at least one suspended sentence order prior to an immediate custodial sentence |
2010 | 34,550 | 40% | 23,602 | 28% |
2011 | 40,134 | 46% | 25,870 | 29% |
2012 | 42,183 | 49% | 26,216 | 31% |
2013 | 41,201 | 52% | 26,670 | 33% |
2014 | 41,962 | 54% | 27,746 | 36% |
2015 | 41,699 | 54% | 28,381 | 37% |
2016 | 42,985 | 55% | 30,138 | 38% |
2017 | 41,424 | 56% | 30,010 | 41% |
2018 | 38,318 | 57% | 28,112 | 42% |
2019 | 35,524 | 58% | 25,634 | 42% |
2020 | 28,623 | 59% | 20,895 | 43% |
2021 | 28,523 | 55% | 20,898 | 41% |
2022 | 27,230 | 56% | 20,339 | 42% |
Source: MoJ extract of the Police National Computer
1 - 'Proportion' refers to the number of offenders in each year who received an immediate custodial sentence in each year and had at least one previous community order or suspended sentence order respectively as a proportion of all offenders who received an immediate custodial sentence in the same year.
2 - Offenders are counted once in each year but may appear in multiple years if they received an immediate custodial sentence in more than one of the years.
3 - Immediate custodial sentences include types of detention other than adult prison (e.g. detention and training orders given to 10 to 17 year olds or detention in Young Offenders Institutions). An offender sentenced to immediate custody does not necessarily mean that the offender is a member of the prison population.
4 - The figures for 2020 and 2021 are likely to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
5 - Previous community orders or suspended sentence orders respectively may have been received at any time prior to the index offence (last immediate custodial sentence) in each year.
6 - Community orders strictly include community orders, with or without electronic monitoring or curfew restrictions, but excludes other types of community sentences (e.g. youth rehabilitation order, supervision orders) and other sentences that may be served in the community (e.g. suspended sentence orders). At least some of the orders included were only introduced in their current form in 2005.
7 – individuals can be present in both columns
8 - England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We are doing more than ever to attract and retain the best staff, including boosting salaries and launching our first-ever nationwide advertising campaign. These efforts are working - we have over 4,800 FTE additional officers between March 2017 and December 2023 and retention rates for prison staff are improving.
Our latest published HMPPS workforce statistics present data up to 31 December 2023. While you have asked for data as at 16 April 2024, we are unable to provide data for periods following December 2023 as this could pre-empt the next set of published Staff in Post data, which will be released on Thursday 16 May 2024. Once updated staffing data have been published in May, including data up to 31 March 2024, we will then be able to consider questions related to vacancy data up to and including March 2024.
In December 2023, across the whole of the Public Sector Prison estate in England and Wales (including the Youth Custody Service) for Band 3-5 Prison Officers, Staff in Post was 63 FTE below the Target Staffing level. This figure is a combination of indicative vacancies at prisons with Staff in Post below their Target Staffing level and the indicative number of surplus staff at other prisons where Staff in Post is above their Target Staffing level. Where possible, prisons with surplus staff are likely to be sending those staff to work on Detached Duty at prisons with vacancies. At times, we have intentionally over-recruited in certain prisons or regions to give the system wider resilience and where prisons are not at their Target Staffing level. Use of Detached Duty, a long-standing mechanism to deploy staff from one prison or region to support another, is also not reflected in the indicative vacancies number.
In December 2023, there were just under 790 FTE Band 3-5 Prison Officer indicative vacancies across individual Public Sector Prison establishments in England and Wales, where Staff in Post was below their Target Staffing level, and just over 720 FTE indicative number of surplus staff across individual Public Sector Prison establishments, in establishments where Staff in Post was above their Target Staffing level.
Table One (below) shows the total Band 3, Band 4 and Band 5 Prison Officer indicative vacancies (FTE) across Public Sector Prisons England & Wales, by region, as of December 2023. Table Two attached shows total Band 3, Band 4 and Band 5 Prison Officer indicative vacancies (FTE) across Public Sector Prisons England & Wales, by region, December 2023.
Table One: Total Band 3, Band 4 and Band 5 Prison Officer indicative vacancies (FTE) across Public Sector Prisons England & Wales, by region (summed from the establishment level in Annex A), December 2023 |
| |||
Region | Band 3 Indicative Vacancies | Band 4 Indicative Vacancies | Band 5 Indicative Vacancies | |
Avon, South Dorset and Wiltshire Prisons | 30 | 6 | 5 |
|
Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Prisons | 10 | 13 | 6 |
|
Cumbria & Lancashire Prisons | 0 | 6 | 5 |
|
Devon and North Dorset Prisons | 12 | 3 | 0 |
|
East Midlands Prisons | 22 | 7 | 14 |
|
Greater Manchester, Merseyside & Cheshire Prisons | 0 | 8 | 4 |
|
Hertfordshire, Essex and Suffolk Prisons | 11 | 8 | 0 |
|
Kent, Surrey and Sussex Prisons | 59 | 10 | 9 |
|
London Prisons | 13 | 36 | 22 |
|
Long Term High Security Estate - North | 12 | 23 | 7 |
|
Long Term High Security Estate - South | 259 | 49 | 33 |
|
North East Prisons | 0 | 12 | 10 |
|
North Midlands Prisons | 0 | 8 | 7 |
|
South Central Prisons | 48 | 25 | 7 |
|
West Midlands Prisons | 0 | 10 | 15 |
|
Women's Prison Group | 25 | 3 | 9 |
|
Yorkshire Prisons | 4 | 4 | 10 |
|
Youth Custody Services* | - | - | 31 |
|
Wales | 36 | 4 | 1 |
|
| 541 | 237 | 196 | |
* In addition, there were 76 FTE vacancies across the Band 3 and 4 grades combined for the Youth Custody Services. In the Youth Custody Services there are a considerable number of staff employed at Band 3 grade working against the Band 4 target as they work towards becoming Band 4 Youth Justice Workers. As a result, we have merged the Band 3 and 4 grades for these five institutions.
Notes on data in this response
- All data is taken from Workforce Planning Tool returns and shows the average position across the month (as of December 2023), adjusted for joiners and leavers in the month.
- Data only covers Public Sector Prison establishments (including the four Young Offenders Institutions (Cookham Wood, Feltham, Werrington and Wetherby)) in England and Wales (and the Youth Custody Service) and will not reflect any Band 3 – 5 Prison Officers who are working in headquarters establishments (e.g. area offices), Public Sector Prisons in Wales or Privately Managed Prisons.
- Workforce Planning Tool returns are manually completed by staff in prisons each month and, as with any manual returns, are subject to human error.
- Indicative vacancies are the difference between Target Staffing levels and Staff in Post across the entire Public Sector Prison estate in England and Wales at prisons (and the Youth Custody Service) with Staff in Post below their Target Staffing level. Indicative surpluses are the difference between Target Staffing levels and Staff in Post across the entire Public Sector Prison estate in England and Wales (and the Youth Custody Service) at prisons where Staff in Post is above their Target Staffing level.
- In Table One we have summed indicative vacancies at the Public Sector Prison establishment level to produce the table showing indicative vacancies at the regional level.
- Target Staffing level is the number of staff required to run an optimal regime in each prison. This level is greater than the minimum number of staff required for a prison to operate safely, and includes allowances for staff taking leave, being off sick or being on training.
- The Target Staffing Figures are set on a site-specific basis and vary in size.
- Band 3-5 Officers includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officers (including specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officers, and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.
- Target Staffing levels are established based on a 39-hour working week. Staff in Post (FTE) is set at 1.0 FTE for those on a 39-hour contract / 1.05 FTE for those on a 41-hour contract and 0.95 FTE for those on a 37-hour contract.
- Target Staffing levels cannot be used to directly calculate vacancies due to the discretion governors have to change establishment level staffing requirements through Governors' Freedoms. As a result, the MoJ does not currently regularly present vacancy data and the data presented should be treated as indicative.
- Staff in Post data used to calculate an indicative number of vacancies does not take into account those on long-term absences (e.g. career breaks) / loans / secondments / agency staff or other forms of overtime.
- There will be some prisons in our data who appear to have a surplus of staff at the Band 3 or Band 4 grades whereas in reality some of these staff are temporarily promoted to more senior grades. Temporary promotions will not be visible in this data and so these roles will appear as vacancies.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Government is taking concerted action to ensure swift justice for victims of VAWG.
This includes delivering the end-to-end Rape Review Action Plan to improve the justice system’s response to adult rape, which has seen Crown Court receipts more than double since 2019.
The Department has also been increasing capacity in the Crown Court, including delivering over 107,000 additional sitting days in Crown Courts; opening two permanent ‘super courtrooms’ in Manchester and Loughborough; increasing criminal legal aid spending by £141 million per year; investing over £220 million for essential modernisation and repair work of court buildings; and investing further in judicial recruitment and retention.
Further to this, we are doing more than ever to ensure victims receive the support they need, including quadrupling funding for victim and witness support services by 2024/25, up from £41 million in 2009/10.
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The table below shows the headcount of leavers in the 12 month period to 31 December for each year since 2015.
Headcount of leavers for MOJ (including HMPPS) in the 12 months to 31 December, from 2015 to 2023
Includes MOJ HQ, HMPPS, HMCTS, OPG, LAA, and CICA
| Headcount of Leavers |
12 months to 31 December 2023 | 11,303 |
12 months to 31 December 2022 | 12,285 |
12 months to 31 December 2021 | 10,488 |
12 months to 31 December 2020 | 7184 |
12 months to 31 December 2019 | 8456 |
12 months to 31 December 2018 | 7360 |
12 months to 31 December 2017 | 6432 |
12 months to 31 December 2016 | 6927 |
12 months to 31 December 2015 | 6329 |
Notes
Includes leavers from MoJ HQ, HMPPS, HMCTS, LAA, OPG, and CICA.
Internal transfers between HMPPS and the other MoJ agencies, and vice versa, will be included in these figures but all other internal transfers are excluded.
Number of leavers will be proportional to the size of the overall business, and therefore these figures should be considered within this context.
A number of calendar years within this period will have been affected by COVID-19.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
Data on accommodation outcomes on the first night of release from custody is published in the Community Performance Annual Statistics. Data is only available from 2017/18 onwards. From this point, accommodation performance metrics were introduced to the probation performance framework with reliable data not available for previous years. The data can be found here: Prison and Probation Performance Statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are delivering our ground-breaking transitional accommodation service, known as Community Accommodation Service – Tier 3 (CAS-3), so prison-leavers have a guaranteed 12 weeks of basic, temporary accommodation to provide a stable base on release. By January 2023, the proportion of offenders housed on the first night of their release from custody was 7.6 percentage points higher in CAS3 regions versus non-CAS3 regions.
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We have accepted that some form of regulation of the funeral sector is required. My officials have therefore been working on a plan to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the self-regulation regimes introduced by the two main representative bodies, and to launch a call for evidence.
The call for evidence will be launched before summer recess and will gather views on what type of regulation is appropriate and proportionate. Following this, we will develop and consult on proposals for the regulation of the sector. There are a number of possible routes for regulation including introducing an independent regulator. It is too early at this stage to say which is most appropriate.
I have discussed the regulation of the Funeral Sector with cabinet colleagues, and am working particularly closely with Minister Hoare on the short-term response to the tragic events in Hull and East Rising.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We have accepted that some form of regulation of the funeral sector is required. My officials have therefore been working on a plan to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the self-regulation regimes introduced by the two main representative bodies, and to launch a call for evidence.
The call for evidence will be launched before summer recess and will gather views on what type of regulation is appropriate and proportionate. Following this, we will develop and consult on proposals for the regulation of the sector. There are a number of possible routes for regulation including introducing an independent regulator. It is too early at this stage to say which is most appropriate.
I have discussed the regulation of the Funeral Sector with cabinet colleagues, and am working particularly closely with Minister Hoare on the short-term response to the tragic events in Hull and East Rising.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We have accepted that some form of regulation of the funeral sector is required. My officials have therefore been working on a plan to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the self-regulation regimes introduced by the two main representative bodies, and to launch a call for evidence.
The call for evidence will be launched before summer recess and will gather views on what type of regulation is appropriate and proportionate. Following this, we will develop and consult on proposals for the regulation of the sector. There are a number of possible routes for regulation including introducing an independent regulator. It is too early at this stage to say which is most appropriate.
I have discussed the regulation of the Funeral Sector with cabinet colleagues, and am working particularly closely with Minister Hoare on the short-term response to the tragic events in Hull and East Rising.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We have accepted that some form of regulation of the funeral sector is required. My officials have therefore been working on a plan to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the self-regulation regimes introduced by the two main representative bodies, and to launch a call for evidence.
The call for evidence will be launched before summer recess and will gather views on what type of regulation is appropriate and proportionate. Following this, we will develop and consult on proposals for the regulation of the sector. There are a number of possible routes for regulation including introducing an independent regulator. It is too early at this stage to say which is most appropriate.
I have discussed the regulation of the Funeral Sector with cabinet colleagues, and am working particularly closely with Minister Hoare on the short-term response to the tragic events in Hull and East Rising.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We have accepted that some form of regulation of the funeral sector is required. My officials have therefore been working on a plan to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the self-regulation regimes introduced by the two main representative bodies, and to launch a call for evidence.
The call for evidence will be launched before summer recess and will gather views on what type of regulation is appropriate and proportionate. Following this, we will develop and consult on proposals for the regulation of the sector. There are a number of possible routes for regulation including introducing an independent regulator. It is too early at this stage to say which is most appropriate.
I have discussed the regulation of the Funeral Sector with cabinet colleagues, and am working particularly closely with Minister Hoare on the short-term response to the tragic events in Hull and East Rising.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)